A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the AEHF-5 milcomsat for the U.S. Air Force is poised for twilight liftoff to GTO on Aug. 8, 2019 at 5:44 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a national security mission. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 7 August 2019 CAPE
SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying AMOS 17 comsat mission for Spacecom launches at 7:23 p.m. EDT Aug 6, 2019 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 6 August 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – After day long threats of awful Space Coast weather and uncertainty
SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying AMOS 17 comsat mission for Spacecom rises at 745 a.m. ET Aug 6, 2019 at Space Launch Complex 40 ahead of launch Aug. 6 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 6 August 2019 TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Its ‘Rocket n’ Roll’ time on Florida’s
This 1st stage booster has been refurbished for relaunch for the 3rd time for the AMOS-17 comsat in Aug. 2019. The recovered/droneship landed SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage from Es’hail-2 launch in Nov. 2018 is readied for shipment on wheeled transporter back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Dramatically backdropped by NASA’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in this
SpaceX conducts successful evening static fire test of recycled Falcon 9 first stage engines at 8 p.m. EDT on July 31, 2019 with exhaust wafting overhead at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for the AMOS-17 comsat launch targeted for Aug. 3, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 1 August 2019 TITUSVILLE,
Artist concept of the Gateway station docked in lunar orbit with power and propulsion, habitation and logistics module and lunar lander along with visiting Orion crew vehicle that will support human exploration of the Moon by 2024. Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 30 July 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA has chosen Northrop Grumman to
Orbit Beyond of Edison,New Jersey, had proposed to fly as many as four payloads to a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters under the NASA CLPS commercial lunar lander program until contract was terminated on July 29, 2019. Credits: Orbit Beyond Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 30 July 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Effective immediately NASA
Blastoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Dragon CRS-18 cargo mission for NASA to the International Space Station on July 25, 2019, at 6:01 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with 2.5 tons of science and supplies – in this remote camera view from pad 40. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com
A pathfinder test article for NASA’s SLS core stage rests beside the B-2 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi that will be used for the ’Green-Run’ static fire test. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 27 July 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL/MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY,LA – After months of deliberating back and forth NASA Administrator
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-18 spacecraft is in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm shortly after it was captured over southern Chile on July 27, 2019. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 27 July 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Two days after a stunningly beautiful liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on a recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket