Space station cameras sight the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft just meters away from docking to the Poisk module on March 23, 2018. Credit: NASA TV Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 23 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- Two days after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz capsule ferrying the Expedition 55 veteran trio of spaceflyers from Russia
NASA’s Curiosity rover raised robotic arm with drill pointed skyward while exploring Vera Rubin Ridge – backdropped by the base of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. This navcam camera mosaic was stitched from raw images taken on Sol 1912, Dec. 22, 2017 and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL/Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/Marco Di Lorenzo Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 22 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL-
The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:44 p.m. EDT March 21, 2018 (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time). The crew is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station at 3:41 p.m. March 23, 2018. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky
The combined optical element and science instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were removed from their specially designed shipping container, called the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea (STTARS), in a high bay at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, on March 8, 2018. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL,
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019. With public input, the team has selected the nickname “Ultima Thule” for the object, which will be the most primitive and most distant world ever explored by spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben Ken
GOES-S view of Earth from its checkout location. Credit: NOAA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 14 Mar 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Less than 2 weeks after the dinnertime blastoff of the GOES-S weather observatory put on a stunningly delicious launch display from the Florida Space Coast on March 1, 2018, the revolutionary satellite that will track extreme weather
Lockheed Martin delivered NASA’s InSight spacecraft to its California launch site on Feb. 28, 2018. The Mars lander was shipped aboard a U.S. Air Force transport plane from Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado to Vandenberg Air Force Base where it will undergo final processing in preparation for a May 2018 launch. Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 13 Mar 2018 CAPE
Robert M. Lightfoot Jr., NASA Acting Administrator speaks at National Space Council Space Summit at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb 21, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, a highly regarded propulsion and spaceflight engineer, announced his retirement from the space agency effective the end of April in a letter to
Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the Sun. Credits: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 9 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA is inviting the public from all across the world to send their names to touch the sun on the agencies groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe mission launching in summer 2018. NASA’s
The 50th SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL with the Hispasat 30W-6 telecomsat for spanish operator Hispasat at 12:33 a.m. EST on March 6, 2018. The 6 ton satellite was delivered to geostationary transfer orbit. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 7 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR