Artist’s rendering of the NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander on Mars launching on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif . Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 4 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s InSight Mars lander is ready for blastoff to the Red Planet on Saturday, May 5,
Artist image of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft docking to the International Space Station. Image credit: Boeing Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 2 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Boeing are studying a significant expansion to the scope of the first crewed orbital test flight of the Starliner commercial crew spacecraft that would essentially change its nature from a
At Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s InSight, Mars lander is positioned atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on April 23, 2018. Photo credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Leif Heimbold Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 1 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s InSight Mars lander and the Atlas V booster that will
NASA’s next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 18, 2018 from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL – in this view from a pad camera. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com
NASA’s next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on April 18, 2018. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s powerful TESS probe aiming to discover new Earth-like habitable worlds
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and NASA TESS exoplanet hunter poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 18 at 6:51 pm EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After Mondays planned launch of NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter was scrubbed due to problems
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on April 14, 2018 at 7:13 p.m. EDT on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – A duo of military research
Up close view of NASA TESS exoplanet hunter encapsulated inside the nose cone atop SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 16 at 6:32 pm EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter is
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on April 14, 2018 at 7:13 p.m. EDT on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 14 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Skywatchers were treated to an
A ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission is poised for liftoff on April 14, 2018 after being rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-41 on April 13. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 13 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –