CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – On June 14, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover achieved a major milestone by traveling a full marathon distance runners trek length across the Red Planet The 1 ton robotic explorer reached the full marathon distance of 26.2 miles, or 42.195 kilometers) on Sol 1890 of its mission – after five years and four months of driving since
Ken Kremer Live Interview Fox 35 Orlando – NASA wants volunteers to live on “Mars” for a year: Video
TITUSVILLE, FL – On July 8, I was interviewed on FOX 35 Orlando about NASA looking for a team of volunteers to spend a year in isolation simulating human life on Mars while working inside habitat prototypes back here on Earth. To aid NASAs Project Artemis NASA seeks volunteers for a 1-year-long analog mission living in isolation in a pair
JETTY PARK & PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The Blue Origin New Glenn-2 first stage booster that accomplished a history making launch and landing last week Nov. 13 returned triumphantly to Port Canaveral in tow atop the company Jacklyn droneship early Tuesday morning, Nov. 18, less than 5 days after liftoff – and with billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on deck beaming
JETTY PARK, FL – After multiple delays due to both Earth and Space Weather the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launched for only its second launch and achieved a history making landing of the reusable first stage on a droneship waiting at sea – while accomplishing its primary goal of hurling NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – For only its second launch, the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is now poised for liftoff on Nov. 9 after NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) Mars Orbiters were integrated with the rocket following a successful static fire test last week and the integrated stack was rolled out to pad 36. Liftoff
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – After many months of delays getting to this point Blue Origin finally and successfully completed a lengthy, impressive and robust 38 second long hotfire test of the first stage engines of only the 2nd ever Blue Origin New Glenn rocket NG-2 on late Thursday evening, Oct. 30 at pad 36. The NG-2 liftoff on a NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has discovered rock samples that contain ‘potential biosignatures’ amounting to the best ever evidence to date for microbial life existing on the Red Planet in the distant past billions of years ago – agency officials announced at a news briefing and in a new press release on Sept. 10. However the discovery
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin reports in a post that they are readying their 2nd New Glenn rocket for launch sometime around the late October to early November timeframe – so long as all goes well with a hotfire test of the first stage in mid-October time period. The long delayed flight dubbed New Glenn-2 (NG-2) will be tasked
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured dramatic new imagery of the Martian moon Phobos during a solar eclipse as seen from the surface of Mars last month. The solar eclipse video of potato shaped Phobos was captured as it transited the Sun with Perseverance’s zoomable and high resolution mast mounted Mastcam-Z camera on April
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – My Perseverance Mars rover mosaic titled ‘Perseverance Sol 354’ was published on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on Feb. 25, 2022 which I created to celebrate the first ‘landiversary’ of the six wheeled robot since touching down on the Red Planet one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021 along with the first