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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission is ‘Go’ for Launch April 22 A SpaceX Crew-2 prelaunch news conference was held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2021. Participants included, from left to right: Steve Stich, manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program; Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program; Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX; Norm Knight, deputy manager, Flight Operations Directorate; Junichi Sakai, manager, International S...

NASA Declares SpaceX Rocket Safe For Upcoming Astronaut Launch Apr 20, 2021 10:19 EDT Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) have finished the final steps of reviewing the companys rocket and spacecraft for an upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is officially dubbed as SpaceX Crew-2 by NASA, and it will fly astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agenc...

Russia will launch the countrys only female cosmonaut into space in 2022. This comes as Russia announces its intention of leaving the International Space Station (ISS) to construct its own national next-generation orbital service station. According to Sputnik News, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin has instructed the cosmonaut training center to include Anna Kikina in one of the upcoming Soyuz crews scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in 2022. "A decision will be made...

April 19, 2021 SpaceX says it has successfully completed the last major test standing between a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft and the company’s next historic astronaut launch. Right on schedule, once-flown Falcon 9 booster B1061, orbit-proven Crew Dragon capsule C206, and a new expendable Falcon upper stage rolled out to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A on Friday, April 16th, kicking off the last major steps for SpaceX’s second operational astronaut l...

Email In a key milestone for NASA’s plan to return humans to the moon, the space agency today announced that SpaceX will build the vehicle that will land astronauts on the lunar surface. The current plan, known as Artemis, calls for astronauts to launch on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, fly to lunar orbit on the space agency’s Orion space capsule, and then transfer to SpaceX’s Starship rocket to make the final descent to the surface. The contract, worth $2.9 billion, will go t...

Watch live Saturday: SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts hold a virtual press conference at 9:45 am ET Space 5 hrs ago © Provided by Space spacex crew-2 The four astronauts that will launch on SpaceXs Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station next week will take questions from the media during a live event at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida Saturday (April 17). You can watch it live in the window above, courtesy of NASA TV, beginning at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...

SpaceX Surprised By High Liquid Oxygen Levels In Rocket Prior To NASA Crew Launch Apr 15, 2021 20:36 EDT Space Exploration Technologies Corp.s (SpaceX) vice president of build and reliability, Mr. Willian Gerstenmaier, stated today that his company discovered excess levels of oxidizer on the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. The anomaly was discovered during a test abort in Texas, explained the executive, whose company is now further investigating the issue. His comments came during a te...

NASA just approved the SpaceX Crew-2 launch: Date and Details Chris Davies - Apr 16, 2021, 10:36am CDT NASA has given the green-light for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to launch in a week’s time, it’s been confirmed, with four astronauts after headed out to the International Space Station. The decision was made after a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which decided the record-setting launch was safe to go ahead. It’ll be the second showing fo...

Endeavour moved to 39A as astronauts arrive and Crew-2 mission is cleared for launch April 16, 2021 Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet, and Akihiko Hoshide have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their upcoming launch to the International Space Station on the same day their spaceship, the Crew Dragon Endeavour, was moved to its sea-side launch pad. NASA and SpaceX are currently targeting launch of the Crew-2 mission on Thursday, April 22 at 06:11 EDT / 10:11 UTC fr...

April 15, 2021 For the third time ever, SpaceX has installed a Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch astronauts on the Falcon 9 rocket that’ll carry it to orbit, sailing past one of the mission’s last major preflight milestones. Known as Crew-2, the NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) mission will be SpaceX’s second operational crew ferry mission after its operational Crew-1 debut launched flawlessly on November 15th, 2020. Since November 16th, the Crew-1 Crew Dragon has been docked t...