This global map of Mars shows a growing dust storm as of June 6, 2018. The map was produced by the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. The blue dot indicates the approximate location of NASA’s Opportunity rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   11 June 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  A massive dust

This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet was created from images on April1, 2018 by the Junocam camera.   This new perspective of Jupiter from the south makes the Great Red Spot appear as though it is in northern territory. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán

The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft is pictured moments after docking to the space station’s Rassvet module on June 8, 2018 with new Expedition 56 crew members Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and flight engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency).  Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Following a flawless mid-week launch from Kazakhstan

The Soyuz MS-09 rocket is launched with Expedition 56 Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and flight engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   6 June 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A German, American and

Six ton SES-12 telecommunications satellite roars off Space Launch Complex-40 on a tail of fire, fury and smoke on SpaceX Falcon 9 just after at midnight Monday June 4, 2018 at 12:45 a.m. EDT on its way to orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   5 June 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR

SES-12 telecom craft steaks to geostationary transfer orbit atop SpaceX  Falcon 9 at midnight Monday June 4, 2018 at 12:45 a.m. EDT in this long exposure photo from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   4 June 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – A spectacular midnight launch

SES-12 comsat poised for liftoff under gloomy dismal rain drenched skies atop SpaceX  Falcon 9 poised for midnight Monday liftoff 12:29 am ET June 4, 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   3 June 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The massively large and powerful, high throughput SES-12 commercial communications

SES-9 comsat poised for liftoff on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, in this file photo. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   31 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – SpaceX has delayed the planned midnight Friday June 1 launch of the SES-12 commercial communications satellite on the firms workhorse

Portrait of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the Moon in 1969, commanded the second Skylab crew in 1973 and went on in retirement to paint the remarkable worlds and sights he had seen like no other artist.  Credit: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   30 May 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA astronaut and Navy test

The NOAA/NASA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), or GOES-17, is being processed in the clean room at Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, FL, prior to launch on a ULA Atlas V on Mar. 1, 2018.  GOES-S belongs to new constellation of America’s most advanced weather satellites. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   28 May 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER,