Maiden SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 6, 2017. Nose cone housing Starman seated in Tesla Roadster is stenciled with Falcon Heavy logo. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 8 February 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The 1st blastoff of the SpaceX Falcon
NASA pays tribute to fallen astronauts at the annual Day of Remembrance ceremony held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex with KSC Director and former astronaut Bob Cabana and NASA officials at the Space Mirror Memorial on Feb. 7, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 8 February 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX/TITUSVILLE, FL
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working with the American aerospace industry as companies develop a new generation of spacecraft and launch systems to carry crews safely to and from low-Earth orbit – the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing CST-100 Starliner. Initial test launches for both have slipped to 2019. Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 6 February 2019
NASA’s InSight lander deployed its Wind and Thermal Shield on Feb. 2, 2019 (Sol 66). The shield covers InSight’s seismometer, which was set down onto the Martian surface on Dec. 19. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 4 February 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s InSight lander has deployed the protective shield covering the Marsquake detecting seismometer instrument
The original crew of the Boeing Starliner crew test flight comprised Eric Boe (left), Nicole Mann and Chris Ferguson as NASA announced in August 2018. For medical reasons Boe has been replaced by Mike Fincke. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 3 February 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA has altered the crew lineup for the 1st Boeing
File photo of ULA Atlas V rocket poised for launch from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Jan. 19, 2018. NASA has selected Atlas V to launch the Lucy probe on the 1st mission to Jupiter’s unexplored Trojan asteroids. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 1 February 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA
NASA’s Parker Solar completed its first orbit around the Sun and begun its second on Jan. 19, 2019. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 31 January 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s history making Parker Solar Probe is in great shape and returning reams of data to scientists back on Earth as she officially completed her first orbit
A selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 (January 15, 2019) at the “Rock Hall” drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –29 January 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Curiosity rover has snapped an amazing ‘selfie’ of herself this month on the Red Planet – even as the US Government
This pre-dust storm panoramic mosaic view was one of the last ones taken by NASA’s Opportunity rover and shows the spectacular view from her approximate current position as of June 2018 after traveling halfway down the fluid carved slope of Perseverance Valley – while peering into the interior of vast Endeavour Crater. This navcam camera photo mosaic was assembled by
This image, taken during the historic Jan. 1, 2019 flyby of Ultima Thule is the clearest view yet of this remarkable, ancient object in the far reaches of the solar system – and the first small KBO ever explored by a spacecraft. The image was taken when the KBO was 4,200 miles (6,700 kilometers) from the spacecraft at 12:26 a.m.