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If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian actress Yulia Peresild participates in a press conference Thursday in Moscow. Credit: Roscosmos Russian actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko will join cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov for a Soyuz ...

Russia clears actress, filmmaker for flight to International Space Station By William Harwood Updated on: May 13, 2021 / 5:27 PM / CBS News Russian actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko will join cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station on October 5 to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie, the Russian space agency announced Thursday. "At the end of 2020, an open competition was announced for the lead role in the first f...

Russia clears actress for flight to space station William Harwood © NASA iss-orbit.jpg Russian actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko will join cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station on October 5 to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie, the Russian space agency announced Thursday. "At the end of 2020, an open competition was announced for the lead role in the first feature film to be filmed in space," Roscosmos said on its w...

NASA Launches Private Astronaut Mission; Space Tickets Worth $55 Million – Report KEY POINTS NASA and Axiom have teamed up to launch a private astronaut mission set to bring civilians to outer space no earlier than January 2022 Tickets to the International Space Station are priced at $55 million each, reports say The four-man crew will be led by former NASA astronaut and space station commander Michael López-Alegría NASA and Houston-based startup Axiom Space have partnered to launch the w...

The ISS could host space tourists as soon as January Engadget 5 days ago Kris Holt Space tourism will ramp up in the coming months, with both Blue Origin and SpaceX looking to take civilians into orbit this year. Looking a little further ahead, more private astronaut missions to the International Space Station are in the pipeline, and NASAs first one could take place as early as January. NASA and Axiom Space have agreed to take civilans to the ISS. Axiom Mission 1 will launch ...

44911461494_2d46902c0e_k.jpeg The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking on Oct. 4, 2018. Credits: NASA/Roscosmos NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place no earlier than January 2022. We are excited to see more people have access to spaceflight through this first private astronaut mission to the space station, said Kathy Lueders, asso...

NASA, Boeing Update Launch Target for Next Starliner Flight Test Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft undergoes preparations for the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 28, 2021. Photo credit: Boeing NASA and Boeing are targeting 2:53 pm EDT Friday, July 30, for the launch of the company’s Starliner uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station. The up...

‘Shoot for the moon,’ Spaceflight was once a folk tale to this NASA engineer now supporting astronaut launches ‘Shoot for the moon,’ Spaceflight was once a folk tale to this NASA engineer now supporting astronaut launches Cuong Tran, a NASA electrical engineer, moved to the US at 14, overcoming adversity to land his dream job Tags:  Cuong Tran, 26, is an electrical engineer at NASAs Kennedy Space Center working on the commercial crew program. Here he is pictured before the SpaceX Demo-...

SpaceX Safely Returns Astronauts to Earth in USs Longest Human Spaceflight Ever MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER 3 MAY 2021 SpaceX just returned its first full astronaut crew to Earth, completing the longest human spaceflight any US vehicle has ever flown. The astronauts of the Crew-1 mission – Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – felt the pull of Earths gravity for the first time in six mont...

Space X astronauts return to Earth ANI 02 May 2021, 21:37 GMT+10 Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): NASAs Space X Crew-1 astronauts truly deserve a big hand as after surviving 167 days in space, the longest duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft since the final Skylab mission in 1974, Dragon and the Crew-1 astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday morning!SpaceXs Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astro...