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The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking on Oct. 4, 2018.
Credits: NASA/Roscosmos
NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place no earlier than January 2022.
We are excited to see more people have access to spaceflight through this first private astronaut mission to the space station, said Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA Headquarters. One of our original goals with the Commercial Crew Program, and again with our Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program, is that our providers have customers other than NASA to grow a commercial economy in low-Earth orbit.
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 updated launch target is supported by the station’s visiting vehicle schedule, Starliner readiness, and the availability of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
“NASA and Boeing have done an incredible amount of work to get to this point,” said Steve Stich, Commercial Crew Program manager. “Our teams are ready for this important mission due to the coordinated efforts of many, including United Launch Alliance, NASA’s Launch Services Program, and the U.S. Space Force, which enabl
‘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
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Cuong Tran, 26, is an electrical engineer at NASA s Kennedy Space Center working on the commercial crew program. Here he is pictured before the SpaceX Demo-2 mission at launchpad 39A. (Image courtesy: NASA) (WKMG 2021)
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – With a contagious smile and a dream job at NASA, 26-year-old Cuong Tran has a bright future but he wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the bravery of his family to leave their home in Vietnam and pursue a better life in the U.S.
SpaceX Safely Returns Astronauts to Earth in US s 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 Earth s gravity for the first time in six months as their Crew Dragon spaceship tore through the atmosphere early Sunday.
The spaceship, which they ve named Resilience, protected them as its speed superheated the air around it to a 3,500-degree-Fahrenheit (1,926-degree-Celsius) plasma.
Space X astronauts return to Earth
ANI
02 May 2021, 21:37 GMT+10
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): NASA s 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!SpaceX s Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, splashed down safely to Earth in a parachute-assisted splashdown at 2:56 a.m. EDT off the coast of Panama City, Florida.
Crews aboard SpaceX recovery vessels successfully recovered the spacecraft and astronauts. After returning to shore, the astronauts will fly back to Houston.