NASA targets April 20 to send next round of astronauts into space
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NASA is targeting April 20 to send the next round of astronauts into space.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA and SpaceX are aiming for no earlier than April 20 for the launch of the second crew rotation mission with astronauts into space.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission will launch four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. It will be the first mission to fly two international partner crew members as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, according to NASA.
Montreal businessman Mark Pathy to be part of first fully private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station
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Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS
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An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor, and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to journey to the International Space Station. The trio will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule early next year, with a veteran NASA astronaut as the commander.
The Ax-1 mission, arranged by Houston, Texas-based space tourism company Axiom Space, is a watershed moment for the space industry as companies race to make space travel more accessible to private customers instead of governments. Private citizens have trekked to the space station in the past, but the Ax-1 mission marks the first to use a commercially built astronaut capsule: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which flew its first two crews to the ISS last year.
NASA sets date for next Boeing Starliner launch
An artist s impression showing the Boeing Starliner capsule in orbit
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NASA and Boeing have set a target date for the second launch of the Starliner spacecraft, which was designed – along with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon – to return crewed launch capabilities to American soil.
Back in 2010 NASA launched the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), an initiative that sought to facilitate the creation of new human-rated spacecraft that would end America’s reliance on Russia’s ageing Soyuz capsules to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
Rather than opting to construct the capsules themselves, the CCP subsidized commercial entities such as SpaceX, Boeing and the Sierra Nevada Corporation
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Elon Musk is convinced that he would spend the rest of his life, or at least the latter part of it, on Mars by 2050 and work there full-time using the internet Starlink would provide if civilization is doing great. The CEO has lately been expressing his plans and fascination towards the Red Planet, along with his willingness to be its first citizen and even its leader.
(Photo : Elon s World via Twitter @ElonsWorld)
The Earth and its technology are still somehow far from bringing people to or from Mars, but the recent studies are aiming for the neighboring planet s possibility to be one of the travel destinations or relocation sites to live in. Humans are still 29 years away from 2050, and Elon Musk is far from living from Mars, but the CEO shows his intent and interest in the Red Planet.
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