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NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Flight Readiness Review Concludes, Teleconference to Follow

By |2024-02-25T19:20:00-05:00February 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Mission managers with NASA, SpaceX, and international partners gather on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to complete a Flight Readiness Review for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim ShiflettThe Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Astronauts Touch Down at Florida Spaceport

By |2024-02-25T14:01:00-05:00February 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, stand before members of the news media at the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Astronauts Depart Houston for Florida

By |2024-02-25T12:25:00-05:00February 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST Friday, March 1, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in [...]

Crew-8 Enters Quarantine for Mission to Space Station

By |2024-02-20T09:19:00-05:00February 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Photo credit: SpaceXCrew members slated to [...]

Launch Date No Earlier Than March 1 Set for Crew-8

By |2024-02-15T12:50:00-05:00February 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

  Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Photo credit: SpaceXNASA and SpaceX [...]

NASA, SpaceX Target March 1 for Crew-8 Launch to Space Station

By |2024-02-15T12:50:00-05:00February 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

  Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Photo credit: SpaceXNASA and SpaceX [...]

NASA, SpaceX Target Late February for Crew-8 Launch to Station

By |2024-02-13T08:10:00-05:00February 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Official SpaceX Crew-8 portrait with Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Grebenkin, and Pilot Michael Barratt, Commander Matthew Dominick, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, all three NASA astronauts. Photo credit: NASA/Bill StaffordNASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:49 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 28, for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission [...]

NASA, SpaceX Target NET Feb. 22 to Launch Crew-8

By |2024-01-31T17:23:00-05:00January 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Official SpaceX Crew-8 portrait with Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Grebenkin, and Pilot Michael Barratt, Commander Matthew Dominick, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, all three NASA astronauts. Photo credit: NASA/Bill StaffordNASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 22, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-8 mission to the International Space [...]

NASA Astronauts Complete Key Boeing Mission Simulation

By |2024-01-31T15:28:00-05:00January 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore emerge from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, as part of an integrated crew exercise simulation for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT). Photo credit: NASA/Isaac WatsonNASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch [...]

NASA, Boeing Move into Next Phases of Flight Test Prep

By |2024-01-24T17:41:00-05:00January 24th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on the International Space Station as the orbitng complex flew 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexican state of Nayarit. Photo credit: NASANASA and Boeing teams are preparing for a flight test no earlier than mid-April [...]

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