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
For SpaceUpClose & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Watch my complete live LiveNOW from FOX video interview with host Andy Mac about the Boeing Starliner CFT crew test flight mission on 26 June 2024. Note: The title from Fox is incorrect as I immediately told them from the start the astronauts are NOT stuck – with my first words!
For SpaceUpClose & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Hopefully the third time is the charm for the maiden crewed launch the Boeing Starliner commercial crew capsule on a test flight carrying two veteran NASA astronauts to the ISS now targeting Wednesday June 5. Following two earlier scrubs the Starliner capsule named Calypso is set for liftoff of the CFT
For SpaceUpClose & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – After a dup od weather delays due to high winds reaching over 45 MPH at the Cape, NASA ans SpaceX seems finally to be on the cusp of launching NASA’s revolutionary PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) Earth observation mission aboard a recycles SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soon
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – After years of effort in the making and drawing a beautiful new illustrated children’s book about NASA Space Shuttle seamstress Jean Wright has just published. It is suitable for kids of all ages Titled “Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses” its written and illustrated by 1st time author
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The four person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around lunchtime Sunday, Aug 20, to complete final training and preparations prior to their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft now targeting overnight Saturday. Aug 26 after a24 hour
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Just past midnight a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched under beautiful weather conditions carrying a NASA instrument air quality monitoring and pollution measuring instrument hosted aboard the commercial Intelsat 40E satellite for broadband internet services for North America – on its way to geostationary orbit from Florida’s Spaceport. NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution
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
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Technicians working at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed the assembly of the major core stage structures for the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) mega Moon rocket that will launch on the agencies next Project Artemis mission – namely Artemis II – that will propel a crew of four astronauts beyond Earth orbit
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A 7x recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a commercial Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying over three tons of groundbreaking NASA science and crucial crew supplies and spacesuit hardware Tuesday evening, March 14, to the International Space Station (ISS) into crystal clear nighttime skies from Florida’s Space Coast. The NASA SpaceX resupply