Two days after A rare launch aborted at the last secondA Russian Soyuz spacecraft took off on a flight to the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut on a six-month mission. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson thundered … Read more
SpaceX launched another crew of four to the International Space Station this evening (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off tonight at 10:53 PM EST (0353 GMT on March 4) carrying the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida . The … Read more
NASA astronaut Jeanette Eps had an unusual path to space: She waited another six years to fly. Epps will ultimately fly to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Saturday evening (March 2) on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission for NASA, flying the second long-duration mission by a Black woman in the orbiting complex. But … Read more
Four new astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Friday as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will launch on March 1 at 12:04 a.m. EST (0504 GMT). Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft, located atop a Falcon 9 … Read more