Artist concept of the logistics module docked to Gateway in lunar orbit. NASA will seek solicitations from American companies to deliver cargo and other supplies to the lunar outpost that will support human exploration of the Moon by 2024. Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 17 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As NASA continues the rapid ramp
Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover. The image was taken on June 5, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility’s High Bay 1 clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 14 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL
Orion’s European built service module for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission completed acoustic testing inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 25, 2019. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 12 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The European-built service module for NASA’s Orion crew spacecraft has completed acoustic
This image of the flight model of NASA’s Mars Helicopter was taken on Feb. 14, 2019, in a cleanroom at JPL. The aluminum base plate, side posts and crossbeam around the helicopter protect its landing legs and the attachment points that will hold it to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –
The “Seeing 2020” live video feed allows the public to watch engineers and technicians assemble and test NASA’s next Mars rover in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 10 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Thanks to a newly installed webcam, you can watch as NASA builds
President Donald Trump after signing Space Policy Directive 1 on Dec. 11, 2017, directing NASA to return to the moon. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 7 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – With a single tweet President Donald Trump trashed his own plans for NASA’s accelerated human Moon landing program thereby jeopardizing the return of American
The International Space Station photographed by the departing Expedition 56 crew members in the Soyuz MS-08 crew capsule on Oct. 4, 2018. Credit: Roscosmos/NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 7 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – From the business capital of the world at Nasdaq in New York City NASA officials today, June 7, announced a significant expansion in commercial
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will launch the first astronaut crew aboard the Boeing Starliner commercial crew vehicle to the ISS later this year has arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after rolling off the Delta Mariner cargo ship on June 5, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 5 June 2019 CAPE
Members of the public who want to send their name to Mars on NASA’s next rover mission to the Red Planet (Mars 2020) can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names etched on microchips to be affixed to the rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 2 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As NASA’s next Mars
Boeing teams ran multiple tests on Starliner’s in-space maneuvering system and the spacecraft’s launch abort system on May 23, 2019 at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. Photo credit: Boeing Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 2 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Boeing engineers completed a lengthy series of hot fire tests on the propulsion system of Starliner