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,

Liftoff of Bangabandhu-1 geostationary communications satellite for nation of Bangladesh on 1st new and improved Block 5 version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on May 11, 2018 at 4:14 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida – as seen from the pad perimeter. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   27 May

This test image from one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captures a swath of the southern sky along the plane of our galaxy. TESS is expected to cover more than 400 times the amount of sky shown in this image when using all four of its cameras during science operations.  Credits: NASA/MIT/TESS Ken Kremer 

This view taken from inside the Cupola shows the Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-9 space freighter approaching its capture point about 10 meters from the International Space Station where it was grappled with the Canadarm2 robotic arm on May 24, 2018.  Credit: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   24 May 2018 WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA – Following a spectacular predawn launch

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket blasts off with Cygnus OA-9 spacecraft from Pad 0A at 4:44 a.m. EDT Monday, May 21, 2018 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to deliver 3.7 tons of research, food and gear – in this remote camera view from the launch pad. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   22 May 2018 WALLOPS FLIGHT