By Mike Killian, on September 30th, 2020
From left to right: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi are slated to launch on the NASA / SpaceX ‘Crew-1’ mission to the ISS as soon as October 31, 2020. Photo: NASA
NASA and SpaceX are moving ahead with their next crewed mission to the International Space Station […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 30th, 2020
NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company’s second un-crewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, prior to flying astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
NASA and Boeing are targeting December 2020 to re-fly an un-crewed Orbital Flight Test […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 31st, 2020
Dragon Endeavour comes in for docking at 10:16 a.m. EDT Sunday. Photo Credit: NASA
Riding aboard a spacecraft they christened “Endeavour”—in honor of the now-retired shuttle which kicked off both of their astronauting careers more than a decade ago—NASA veterans Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken completed another milestone earlier today (Sunday, 31 May), with […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 17th, 2020
Crew Dragon atop Falcon 9 for the In-Flight Abort Test. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
UPDATE – NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 8 a.m. EST Sunday, Jan. 19, for launch. The abort test has a six-hour launch window. Teams are standing down from today’s launch attempt due to poor splashdown and recovery weather.
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By Ben Evans, on December 18th, 2019
Boeing’s STARLINER ready for launch atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on an un-crewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA to and from the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeting 6:36am EST Friday. Photo: Troy McClellan
After a decade in development, Boeing stands ready for the highly-anticipated un-crewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of its CST-100 […]
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By Jim Hillhouse, on November 9th, 2019
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner’s four launch abort engines and several orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters ignite in the company’s Pad Abort Test, Nov. 4, 2019. Photo: NASA
NASA’s head of Commercial Crew Kathy Lueders and Boeing’s John Mulholland, V.P. and Program Manager, Commercial Crew Programs, Space Exploration, held a press conference on Nov. 7 […]
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By Ben Evans, on September 22nd, 2019
The engines of the Teleoperator Retrieval System (TRS), seen docked to Skylab, perform a lengthy “burn” to either deliver the old space station into a higher, more stable orbit or to prepare it for a controlled, destructive re-entry. Image Credit: NASA
Visiting space stations is, and always has been, a complex and challenging endeavor; […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 21st, 2019
Spacewalkers Nick Hague (top) and Andrew Morgan install the International Docking Adapter (IDA-3) to the Pressurized Mating Adapter on top of the station’s Harmony module. Credits: NASA
Veteran spacewalker Nick Hague and recently-arrived Expedition 60 crewmate Drew Morgan ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) earlier today (Wednesday) to cap off preparations for the […]
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By Mike Killian, on March 3rd, 2019
The SpaceX Crew Dragon on ‘Demo-1’ docking to the station’s international docking adapter, which is attached to the forward end of the Harmony module. Credit: NASA TV
Early this morning, after making 18 orbits of the Earth and 27 hours after launch, the first SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived and docked to the International […]
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By Mike Killian, on February 19th, 2018
The first Block 5 variant of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, their final variant of the booster, was seen traveling on I-8 in Yuma, AZ this weekend en route to the company’s testing grounds in McGregor, TX. Photo Courtesy: Alison Morgan via u/tvgenius on Reddit (used with permission)
SpaceX’s long awaited first “Block 5” […]
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