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We now know that Ax-2 will fly with SpaceX, as will Ax-3 and Ax-4. All of those missions are expected to launch by 2023, Axiom representatives said. Neither company revealed the financial terms of the contract. "We are beyond excited to build upon our partnership with Axiom to help make human spaceflight more accessible for more people," SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell Crew Dragon has already toted astronauts to the space station three times. But each of those flig...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will launch three more private astronaut missions tentatively through 2023 under a bulk deal signed this week with mission manager Axiom Space, the companies announced June 2nd.

New NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gave his first State of NASA address on Wednesday plotting out the agency’s plans to continue the Artemis program to return humans to the moon as well as new Earth-centric missions as part of the largest science budget ask ever for the agency.

Sixty years ago today, May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy appeared before Congress and argued America “Should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." The goal was achieved, but it is 49 years since the last time any human walked upon the Moon, or indeed any other non-earthly natural body, raising the question of why spaceflights big dreams have not been realized yet. The first part of the answer ...

Whitson and a racecar driver will helm Axiom’s second private mission to the ISS

Image: NASA / Johnson Space Center Peggy Whitson, one of NASA’s most experienced retired astronauts, is going back to space — this time with a racecar driver and two other passengers in the latest mission planned by Axiom Space. The Houston-based space company announced on Tuesday that Whitson will serve as the mission commander for its second private flight to the International Space Station, with John Shoffner, a GT racer, serving as mission pilot. The Ax-2 mission with Whitson and Shoffn...

According to a news release from NASA: This will be the first spaceflight for Barron, who became a NASA astronaut in January 2020 after completing two years of training. She will join NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn, as the mission’s commander and pilot, respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who also will serve as a mission specialist. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls This will be the third crew rotation mission on SpaceX’s human space transporta...

May 23, 2021 Barron was born in Pocatello, Idaho, but considers Richland, Washington, her hometown. She earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2010. She earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cambridge, in England, in 2011, as Gates Cambridge Scholar. Lt. Cmdr. Barron earned her submarine warfare officer qualification and deployed three times while serving aboard the USS Maine. At the time of h...

Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, May 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Media accreditation is open for prelaunch and launch activities for NASAs Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station, the second uncrewed flight test of the companys CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for NASAs Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Starliner is targeted for 2:53 p.m. EDT Friday, July 30, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape...

Bob Cabana, who has been director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since 2008, has taken on the new role of agency associate administrator beginning May 17. He succeeds Steve Jurczyk, who retired May 14 after 32 years with NASA. “I first met Bob in 1985 while training to fly on the space shuttle and when Bob arrived at NASA as an astronaut candidate,” NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson said. “He has a relentless determination to expand America’s role in space.” As K...