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Commander Peggy Whitson (back right) affixes her crew’s Expedition 16 patch to a surface aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as outgoing Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (back left) looks on. Photo Credit: NASA The event was almost an anticlimax. On 19 October 2007, ten years ago today, Peggy Whitson became the first […] 
The CRS-11 Falcon 9 first stage returns to Earth, making a successful landing back at Cape Canaveral AFS after launching Dragon to the ISS minutes earlier from KSC pad 39A. Photo Credit: NASA TV If candles celebrate an anniversary, then the roar of Merlin 1D+ rocket engines honored the 100th launch from Pad […] 
The Soyuz-FG booster delivers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer smoothly into orbit on Thursday, 20 April. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer have launched safely into orbit aboard their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft, bound for a 4.5-month occupancy of the International Space Station (ISS). The duo—who represent the […] 
Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and “rookie” spacefarer Jack Fischer will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Soyuz MS-04 on Thursday, 20 April. Photo Credit: NASA The smallest Soyuz crew in more than a decade will rocket towards the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, 20 April, heading for a shorter-than-normal […] 
Peggy Whitson and Thomas Pesquet, pictured aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: NASA/Thomas Pesquet/Twitter At 10:38 p.m. EDT yesterday (Monday), veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson—currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of the Expedition 50 crew—secured a new record, as the first woman to log a cumulative 500 […] 
Veteran spacewalker Randy Bresnik will become the first U.S. Marine Corps officer to command the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Three experienced spacefarers from three nations, with a combined total of almost a year in space, across four previous missions—to say nothing of over 31 cumulative hours of […] 
“Like an old married couple” was Jack Fischer’s description of the camaraderie between himself and Fyodor Yurchikhin. The pair will launch in March 2017 for a six-month expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace You might be forgiven for thinking that one chair was missing at the Johnson Space […] 
The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 50 crewmembers NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, (Kazakh time) (Nov 17 Eastern time). Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet will spend approximately six months […] 
Demonstrating the need to mutually “support” one another, Oleg Novitsky (left) and Thomas Pesquet cradle Peggy Whitson, as their Soyuz-FG booster undergoes final preparation behind them. Photo Credit: NASA/Peggy Whitson/Twitter Three new crew members, including the world’s most experienced female space traveler, will launch into the night from Baikonur Cosmodrome, later this week, […] 
The Expedition 49 crew re-adjust to terrestrial gravity and the sights, sounds, and scents of Earth, after landing in Kazakhstan. From left are Kate Rubins, Anatoli Ivanishin, and Takuya Onishi. Photo Credit: NASA Only days before the 16th anniversary of the dawn of continuous habitation of the International Space Station (ISS), the 50th […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-9 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 8 Jul 20 at 20:15 GMT 8 Jul 20 at 4:15pm Eastern 
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