The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California through thick fog to study the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 5 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The InSight lander blasted off in the
SpaceX team conducts hold down static fire test of first stage engines on the first upgraded Block 5 Falcon 9 booster prior to launch of the Bangabandhu-1 communications satellite from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in May 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 4 May 2018 PLAYALNDA BEACH CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL
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