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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 […] 
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough (right) was making his fifth career EVA, whilst Thomas Pesquet became only the second Frenchman to complete a repeat spacewalk. Photo Credit: NASA For the 40th time in a little more than 15 years, spacewalkers in U.S.-built Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs)—and without the presence of the Space Shuttle—departed […] 
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough will lead U.S. EVAs 40 and 41. Photo Credit: Shane Kimbrough/NASA/Twitter Three pivotal and record-setting periods of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) are scheduled to occur from the International Space Station (ISS) over the coming weeks, according to a news conference, held at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, […] 
Two additional seats have opened up for NASA astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2017 and March 2018. This will increase the U.S. Orbital Segment (USOS) to four members for the first time. Photo Credit: NASA Two experienced U.S. astronauts, with a combined total of more than 300 days in […] 
The OA-7 Cygnus spacecraft, also known as “Space Ship John Glenn”, is prepared for encapsulation within its Atlas V payload fairing. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace A wide variety of science and technology payloads, ranging from cancer studies to crystal growth and from plant habitats to the deployment of multiple CubeSats, will travel to […] 
Sunday’s Static Fire Test left smoke, flame and the roar of rocket engines reverberating across Pad 39A for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era. Photo Credit: Jeffrey Siebert/AmericaSpace After a multi-month hiatus, SpaceX stands ready to resume cargo delivery flights to the International Space Station (ISS), under the […] 
CRS-10 will be the 10th dedicated Dragon to launch to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: NASA NASA personnel, together with investigators and student scientists, gathered for a media teleconference earlier today (Wednesday, 8 February), to discuss the research payloads heading uphill aboard SpaceX’s next Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) Dragon mission to […]
Shane Kimbrough made the fourth EVA of his astronaut career on Friday, 13 January 2017. Photo Credit: Shane Kimbrough/NASA/Twitter Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet spent almost six hours working outside the International Space Station (ISS), earlier today (Friday). During U.S. EVA-39—the 39th spacewalk performed from the station’s Quest […] |
 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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