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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Mission

By |2024-04-22T17:59:00-04:00April 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The official crew portrait for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Left is Suni Williams, who will serve as the pilot, and to the right is Barry “Butch” Wilmore, spacecraft commander. Photo credit: NASA NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are set to launch to the International Space Station on Monday, May 6, entered [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Begins Stacking Operations

By |2024-04-16T11:39:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, set to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, passes in front of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA teams joined Boeing on [...]

NASA, Boeing Prep Starliner to Join Rocket Ahead of Crew Flight Test

By |2024-04-15T10:00:00-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 4, 2022. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux The spacecraft set to carry two NASA astronauts on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station is ready to move [...]

Expedition 69 Northrop Grumman CRS-18 Cygnus Cargo Craft Departs Space Station – April 21, 2023

By |2024-04-03T02:09:14-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

The unpiloted Northrop Grumman CRS-18 Cygnus cargo craft was released from the nadir port of the Unity Module of the International Space Station April 21 by flight controllers on the ground in Houston, Texas. NG-18 launched on November 7, 2022 on an Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, beginning a two-day flight [...]

SpaceX CRS-9 Live Launch and the Science That’s Onboard

By |2024-04-03T02:09:13-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Various staff reflect during the SpaceX CRS-9 live launch and the science that they are involved with that will be conducted onboard the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Astronauts Ingress at Launch Complex 39A

By |2024-04-03T02:09:04-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts make their way down the crew access arm to the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. From left are Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and mission specialist; and Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist. Along with Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander; and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot, they will launch to the International [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Astronauts Ingress at Launch Complex 39A

By |2024-04-03T02:09:03-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts make their way down the crew access arm to the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. From left are Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot; and Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander. Along with Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and mission specialist; and Andrei Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist, they will launch to the International [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Astronauts Ingress at Launch Complex 39A

By |2024-04-03T02:09:02-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts are secured in their seats inside the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. From left are Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist; NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot; NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander; and Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and mission specialist. The Crew-6 astronauts will launch to the International [...]

NASA, Boeing Update Launch Date for Starliner’s First Astronaut Flight

By |2024-04-02T16:44:00-04:00April 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 4, 2022. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux Following a review of the International Space Station operations, NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test now is targeting no earlier than Monday, May 6, for Starliner’s [...]

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-30: Liftoff at 4:55 p.m. EDT

By |2024-03-21T17:10:00-04:00March 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after its liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, on the company’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about [...]

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