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Astronauts talk about SpaceX splashdown, 6 months in space NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrived home Sunday following 167 days in space Tags:  NASA astronaut Victor Glover is helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after he, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 20...

Boeing targets July for Starliner test flight to space station Orbital test flight-2: July 30 at 2:53 p.m. Tags:  Starliner vice president and program manager, John Vollmer, watches the docking portion of Boeing’s simulated Orbital Flight Test-2 mission with other senior leaders and software integrators inside the company’s Avionics and Software Integration Lab in Houston, Texas. (Image Credit: Boeing) (WKMG 2021) BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Boeing and NASA revealed a new target launch date i...

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-...

NASA announced that the SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, Soichi Noguchi, will be available to answer questions about their historic mission in a virtual event on Thursday.

Marcia Dunn NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9...

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...

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...

02 May 2021, 10:05 pm NASA has officially named Sen. Bill Nelson as the space agencys 14th administrator last April 29, which revamps the focus of the National Space Council with its head being Vice President Kamala Harris. Sen. Nelson thinks the Vice President is the perfect fit for the role, something that Harris was excited about, as she steps up as its new leader. (Photo : Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a virtu...