For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- The race to develop a human lunar lander for NASA’s new Artemis program to a great leap forward this week when Blue Origin’s founder billionaire Jeff Bezos announced the formation of a ‘national team’ of four highly experienced US industrial giants – including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Draper Labs and Blue Origin –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- The German Mole is on the move at last on Mars on NASA’s InSight lander after a lot of hard work by engineers on both sides of the Atlantic have has finally paid off trying to save the stuck deep penetrating heat probe on the agency’s spacecraft designed explore the deep interior of
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION – At last after years of development effort and delays its finally getting real as all the key flight hardware for the maiden uncrewed test flight of the Boeing Starliner commercial crew capsule is coming together for its first blastoff on a shakedown cruise to the International Space Station
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL/MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, LA – The first of
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – In what can only be described as the perfect example of “Bake The World A Better Place,” Space UpClose had the opportunity to do a pre-flight interview with co-Chefs and co-Founders of Zero G kitchen, LLC, Ian and Jordana Fichtenbaum, who have teamed with NanoRacks and Double Tree by Hilton to make space history as
For Spaceupclose.com and RocketSTEM Cape Canaveral, FL – A dynamic duo of NASA women astronauts – Christina Koch and Jessica Meir – made history Friday, Oct. 18 when they carried out and successfully completed history’s 1st all-female spacewalk soaring some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth while working and floating outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical job
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Culminating years of design effort NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine unveiled a pair of hi tech Artemis generation astronaut spacesuits to be worn by the 1st woman and the next man who will journey to the Moon in Orion capsules and walk on the lunar South Pole by 2024 – during a rousing event held Tuesday, Oct
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER & CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –NASA’s newest science mission named ICON launched at last tonight, Oct. 10, to begin the most detailed study ever of Earth’s ionosphere – the tenuous upper atmospheric layer at the interface of the dynamic boundary where Earth’s weather meets space weather – via an air-drop launch of the Northrop Grumman
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