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A week after returning from space, Jack Fischer has accrued 136 days in orbit from his first mission. Peggy Whitson, meanwhile, now stands as the world’s eighth most experienced spacefarer, with 665 days across her three missions. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace A week since their return from low-Earth orbit, Expedition 52 astronauts Peggy […] 
SpaceX launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Credit: AmericaSpace/Alan Walters For the ninth time this year, the roar of nine Merlin 1D+ engines pummeled Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in […] 
A successful test fire of the Falcon 9 for next week’s CRS-12 launch, NET Aug 14. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace/Jeff Seibert UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: […] 
The Soyuz MS-05 rocket is launched with Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli will spend the next four and a half […] 
When Fyodor Yurchikhin’s crew returns to Earth in September, Expedition 53 will officially begin, under the command of NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (seated right). His crew will consist of (from left) Joe Acaba, Aleksandr Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei, Sergei Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli. Photo Credit: NASA, via Mark Vande Hei/Twitter For 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 […] 
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 […] |
 Launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 with Starlink 17 has been delayed once again. Currently the new launch date is To Be Determined. Click here for more details...  |
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