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The crew, set to launch in 2024, includes the first woman and first person of color to be sent on a lunar mission. 

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Dr. Brad Tucker was the first expert on the scene after two farmers found pieces of space debris, now known to have come from SpaceX's Crew-1 mission.

Last Updated: NASA Reveals Reason Behind Scheduling Crew-1 Splashdown During Night National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on May 4, revealed the reason behind scheduling the Crew-1 splashdown for the night. Image: NASA/AP National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on May 4, revealed the reason behind scheduling the Crew-1 splashdown for the night. At 2:56 am on Sunday, a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying all the four astronauts from NASA’s ambitious Commercial Crew...

Crew-1 Marks the End of the Longest Mission on the ISS With a Splashdown 3 May 2021, 16:02 UTC · by 1 photo Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, landed in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Panama City, Florida at 2:56 a.m. EDT. The spacecraft and astronauts were successfully recovered by crews on SpaceX rescue vessels. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 took off on a Falcon 9 rocket from th...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Plunging through the Earth’s atmosphere and splashing down by moonlight SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully returned three American and one Japanese astronaut to Earth following six months in space. NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker along with Japanese space agency, JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi first began their journey home by undocking the SpaceX Dragon Resilience from the International Space Station Saturday evening. The four astron...

The splashdown return to Earth for Crew-1 has been delayed again.

NASA has never flown its own astronauts to and from space for a mission this long. Now SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship must bring them back to Earth.

Astronauts prepare for SpaceX Dragon splashdown after 6-month space station stay 3 NASA astronauts, 1 JAXA astronaut will return home Wednesday Tags:  The four SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts, gather around a laptop computer to join a video conference with former NASA astronaut Edward Gibson. From left are, Michael Hopkins of NASA, Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Victor Glover. (Image: NASA) (NASA 2021) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. –...

Crew-2 arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday morning. There are now 11 astronauts on the ISS for at least the next four days.