CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA unexpectedly announced its bringing the previously cancelled VIPER Lunar Rover mission back to life and selected Blue Origin to launch the robot to the Moon’s South Pole in search of lunar ice and in support of the agency’s Artemis human landing campaign. On Sept. 19, NASA reversed course on the VIPER cancellation and announced the
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The NASA Firefly Aerospace commercial lunar lander named Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its two-week Moon mission on March 16 as planned following the successful landing on the Moon with ten NASA science and technology demonstrations on March 2. The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2025,
GRAND CAYMAN – Ken Kremer, Managing Editor for Space UpClose, joined FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer on March 7, 2025 to discuss the next steps for Starship and SpaceX after the eighth flight test exploded on March 6, 2025. The Starship mission aims to bring astronauts back to the moon. Jean Wright and Ken Kremer of Space UpClose watched the SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the crew of four astronauts who will blast off on the historic Artemis II mission – as ‘humanity’s crew’ on humanity’s next epic journey beyond Earth orbit and around the Moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years! The history making international flight will
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The countdown clock is ticking for the nighttime liftoff of NASA’s $4.1 Billion Artemis 1 Moon rocket just past midnight on Wed. Nov. 16 from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Center in Florida on an uncrewed lunar test flight around the Moon and back – after NASA managers cleared the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Following the scrub called on the first launch attempt of the Artemis 1 Moon rocket on Monday, Aug 29, NASA officials have decided to postpone the launch date for the maiden flight of the mammoth SLS Mega Moon rocket on its unpiloted lunar test flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA announced the agency has moved up the rollout of the Artemis 1 Moon rocket from the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to its launch pad by nearly 2 days to Tuesday, Aug. 16 and is still targeting Aug. 29 as the launch date for the maiden flight of the mammoth
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Just in the nick of time from approaching thunder and rainstorms NASA’s 32- story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was transported back from Launch Complex-39B and arrived inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Saturday afternoon, July 2, after agency officials determined that the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA decided the 4th Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Tanking Test conducted on the repaired 32- story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Monday, June 20 was sufficiently successful to declare completion of the practice countdown and cryogenic fueling test campaign objectives despite a new hydrogen leak – and thereby paves the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – For the first time NASA was able to fully fuel both stages of the agency’s Mega Moon Rocket with supercold cryogenic propellants and enter the terminal countdown to within 29 seconds of T-Zero on Monday June 20, despite a hydrogen leak during the fourth attempt to complete the critical countdown and