Saturn V SA-506, the rocket carrying NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft, is rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building and down the 3.5 mile crawlerway to Launch Complex 39A on May 20, 1969 at the Kennedy Space Center, FL. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 20 May 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  50 years ago today the mighty Saturn

Illustration of a human landing system for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program.. Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 18 May 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  NASA has awarded new contracts to jumpstart studies and develop prototypes for its newly named Project Artemis human lunar exploration program to 11 firms across eight states aimed at landing American astronauts on

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket raised vertical and poised for liftoff at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on Starlink-1 mission targeted for launch May 16, 2019 at 10:30 p.m. EDT.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 16 May 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –  SpaceX’s maiden launch of the first batch

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket raised vertical and poised for liftoff at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on Starlink-1 mission targeted for launch May 15, 2019 at 10:30 p.m. EDT.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 15 May 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –  SpaceX is now targeting Wednesday evening May

Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin unveils his privately developed ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander on May 9, 2019 in Washington D.C.. Credit: Blue Origin Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 13 May 2019 TITUSVILLE, FL-  Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin rocket company, Amazon and the world’s richest person, has unveiled his vision of returning to the Moon –

Artists concept for NASA’s human return to the Moon’s surface by 2024. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 13 May 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced today that the Trump Administration will add an additional $1.6 Billion to NASA’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget request in order to carry out the President’s new mandate to

SpaceX conducts successful nighttime static fire test of Falcon 9 first stage engines at approximately 10:15 p.m. EDT on May 13 with exhaust spewing out left from the flame trench at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, for Starlink-1 mission targeted for launch May 15, 2019 at 1030 p.m. EDT.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com  Ken Kremer —

BOOSTER RETURNS TO CAPE:  With all 4 landing legs retracted 1st time the SpaceX Falcon 9 launched and landed 1st stage booster from Dragon CRS-17 resupply mission to the ISS for NASA on May 4, 2019 was transported horizontally back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, around 1 p.m. EDT May 8 – achieving a major recycling milestone. See NASA’s

Fishing for a Falcon 9 in a bikini from a passing speed boat – locals appear unaware as SpaceX technicians craned the launched and landed SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-17 mission  1st stage off the ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ droneship in Port Canaveral, FL, Sunday morning May 5, 2019 around 11 a.m. EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer —

Glistening with Sunset Sheen: First instance of recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage booster standing vertically with 4 fully retracted landing legs locked against the CRS-17 mission core stationed on pedestal at Port Canaveral, FL, 7 May 2019. Surrounded by two mockup Crew Dragon test articles.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 8 May 2019 PORT CANAVERAL,