By Ben Evans, on March 5th, 2021
A busy Visiting Vehicle manifest @Space_Station in April has produced another delay for @Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner OFT-2 mission. […]
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By Ben Evans, on February 9th, 2021
@SierraNevCorp & @SpaceFlorida take one step closer to landing Dream Chaser @Space_Station cargo missions back home at @NASAKennedy. […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 26th, 2021
@NASA, @ULALaunch & @Boeing are targeting NET 25 March for CST-100 Starliner test flight to @Space_Station, as STPSat-3 mission slips for “launch readiness evaluations”. […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 2nd, 2021
@Space_Station promises to be a busy place in 2021, as @Commercial_Crew hits its stride & @NASA_SLS & #Artemis prepares to return humans to the Moon. […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 13th, 2020
@SpaceX & @NASA are ready for #Crew1: the 100th human visit to the @Space_Station. Liftoff at 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday, weather permitting. #LaunchAmerica […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 11th, 2020
@NASA & @SpaceX formally certify Crew Dragon as 1st commercial provider of human transportation services to space. But Tropical Storm Eta may pose problems for this week’s NROL-101 & Crew-1 launches. […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 3rd, 2020
Yesterday’s return of @Astro_Doug and @AstroBehnken finally brought human spaceflight capability back to U.S. shores for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era. […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 8th, 2020
NASA’s newly-appointed associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate, Kathy Lueders, and Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich have discussed the outcome of the High Visibility Close Call review of last December’s uncrewed test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner.
Lofted atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 30th, 2020
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching America’s first crew back to space from US soil on the Crew Dragon May 30, 2020 from Kennedy Space Center pad 39A on the Demo-2 flight test to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
The wait is over. […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 26th, 2020
Bob Behnken (left) previously served as chief of NASA’s astronaut corps, whilst Doug Hurley piloted the final Space Shuttle mission, STS-135. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
The International Space Station (ISS) is primed to receive its sixth visiting vehicle of 2020 in the coming days, although of a kind unseen in almost a […]
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