Seven astronauts are celebrating the holiday season next to the International Space Station, but that doesn’t stop any holiday cheer on Earth. The expedition cre members are starting the day, but NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Waker and Kate Rubins, and astronaut Sochi Noguchi from Japan took some …
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Six years later, the two succeed Test flights And a multi-billion dollar investment in American enterprise, ready for NASA Launch four astronauts The first government-certified flight of the commercially developed SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station this weekend. Originally expected to take off on Saturday, the launch …
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A week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station, three crew members were wrapped up in their Soyuz spacecraft and blocked for a burning dive to Earth on Wednesday to close the 196-day mission. The outgoing commander of Expedition 63, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, …
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A three-person crew on Wednesday successfully reached the International Space Station on a Russian rocket on Wednesday morning after the fastest journey of barely three hours from Earth. For the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the mission of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian astronauts and a NASA astronaut was crucial, while …
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Christopher Ferguson, commander of the final space shuttle flight and now Boeing executive, has resigned as commander of the company’s first pilot test flight. Troubled CST-100 Starliner The commercial spacecraft, he and Boeing announced Wednesday. He has been replaced by NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore. Ferguson tweeted, “I’m taking on …
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