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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...

NASA clears first reused SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for astronaut launch By (0) NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur waves to the media Friday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after arriving from Texas for a planned launch on Thursday aboard the first reused SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to carry people. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule roll out to Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on Friday in preparation for the Crew-2 astronaut launch plann...

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...

NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY CONGRATULATES NASA AND SPACEX ON HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM SELECTION To left, SpaceX’s lunar Starship is seen next to the baseline design now being tested. Credit: SpaceX Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Chosen by NASA for Artemis Lunar Landings This is perhaps the most daring step we’ve seen NASA take since the announcement of the flight of Apollo 8 to lunar orbit in 1968...” — Bruce Pittman, NSS DirectorWASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 19, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Nation...

Last Updated: Russia Cosmonauts Comment On ISS Experience Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov held a press briefing on Monday following their return to Earth after a stint on the International Space Station (ISS). Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov held a press briefing on Monday following their return to Earth after a stint on the International Space Station (ISS). Ryzhikov recalled the moment when he came back to the Earth, saying the plan...

(Photo : Photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-2 mission, on April 16, 2021 at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Stati...

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...

Three Astronauts Return Safely to Earth NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos landed on Earth on Saturday in Kazakhstan, NASA reported. The trio departed the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft at 9:34 pm. After post-landing medical checks, the crew will split up with Rubins returning to her home in Houston, while the cosmonauts fly back to their training base in Star City, Russia. Remaining aboard the station i...

Rubins -- the first person to sequence DNA in space -- will return home to Houston, Texas and Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov will fly back to their training base in Star City, Russia. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 64 crew members Kate Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, Saturday, April 17, 2021. Rubins, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov returned after 185 days in space havin...