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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Visits Dragon, Tests Equipment Ahead of Launch

By |2024-01-17T16:41:00-05:00January 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut mission specialist Alexander Grebenkin; NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, pilot; Matthew Dominick, commander; and mission specialist Jeanette Epps, who will fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8, participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: SpaceXCrew members set to fly aboard NASA’s [...]

Starliner Parachute System Upgrade Tested Before Crewed Flight

By |2024-01-12T10:00:00-05:00January 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A NASA C-130 cargo aircraft releases a dart-shaped test vehicle above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground on Jan. 9 to begin the testing sequence for a Boeing Starliner parachute system. Credit: U.S. Army Yuma Proving GroundA modified parachute system for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program was tested over the Arizona [...]

NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Commercial Crew Program Artwork Contest

By |2023-12-21T13:44:00-05:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA received more than 3,000 entries from around the world for this year’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Children’s Artwork Calendar contest. Of those, the agency has selected 36 first-, second-, and third-place winners to display in the calendar for 2024. The contest invited children to submit original artwork related to four overarching themes: rockets [...]

Mission Specialist Assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 Mission

By |2023-11-22T09:58:00-05:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk joins NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Scott Tingle as part of NASA’s Boeing Starlier-1 mission crew. Photo credit: NASACSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been selected as a mission specialist for NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission – the first crew rotation flight for the spacecraft to the [...]

Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station

By |2023-10-23T14:17:00-04:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 19, 2023, the Starliner team works to finalize the mate of the crew module and new service module for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test that will take NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from [...]

NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

By |2023-10-12T11:01:00-04:00October 12th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The International Space Station’s U.S. segment and portions of the Russian segment are pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. Prominent at the top in this view, are the Columbus [...]

Crew-6 Returns Safely to Earth after Splashdown

By |2023-09-04T00:21:00-04:00September 4th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour is seen as it splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT, returning Crew-6 to Earth. Credits: NASA TV.NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour in [...]

Deorbit Burn Complete

By |2023-09-03T23:40:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 crew members are seen inside the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft during their return to Earth on Sept. 3, 2023. Photo credit: NASA TVThe SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev on their return to Earth after a [...]

Crew-6 Coming Up on Deorbit Burn for Splashdown

By |2023-09-03T23:06:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with four Crew-6 members aboard approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port on March 3, 2023. Aboard Endeavour, were Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey [...]

Hatch Closed, Dragon Leaving Station Soon Live on NASA TV

By |2023-09-03T05:34:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The four SpaceX Crew-6 members (from left) Andrey Fedyaev, Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, and Sultan Alnedayi, are pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour prior to launching in March. Credit: SpaceXAt 5:19 a.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to [...]

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