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Flight Crew Arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for Crew-5 Mission

By |2022-10-01T12:35:00-04:00October 1st, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The crew has safely landed at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Touchdown was at approximately 12:15 p.m. EDT. NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana and Kennedy Director Janet Petro were there to greet the crew as they exited the aircraft in the following order: NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Crew Departs Houston, Bound for Florida

By |2022-10-01T11:43:00-04:00October 1st, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 crewmembers Anna Kikina, Josh Cassada, Nicole Mann, and Koichi Wakata are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to make final preparations for Wednesday’s launch from the Florida spaceport.NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 crewmembers have departed Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and are en route to [...]

NASA Shifts Crew-5 Launch Date Due to Hurricane Ian

By |2022-09-28T20:38:00-04:00September 28th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Sept. 23, 2022. The capsule arrived at the launch complex after making the short journey from its nearby processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo credit: SpaceXNASA and [...]

NASA Adjusts Crew-5 Launch Date Due to Hurricane Ian

By |2022-09-27T16:16:00-04:00September 27th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Dragon Endurance spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Sept. 23, 2022. The capsule arrived at the launch complex after making the short journey from its nearby processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo credit: SpaceXNASA and SpaceX [...]

NASA to Cover Crew-5 Flight Readiness Review

By |2022-09-26T08:10:00-04:00September 26th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission pose for a portrait in their Crew Dragon flight suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; Pilot Josh Cassada and Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, both from NASA; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration [...]

Crew-5 Enters Quarantine for Mission to Space Station

By |2022-09-20T08:58:00-04:00September 20th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will travel to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission on Oct. 3, 2022. Photo credit: NASANASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Astronauts Meet Their Dragon

By |2022-09-19T13:55:00-04:00September 19th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew members for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station pose at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. From left, are NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, pilot; Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, mission specialist; NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, mission commander; and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, mission specialist. Photo credit: SpaceXBy [...]

Boeing CST-100 Starliner OFT-2 Launch to the ISS 🔴 Live

By |2022-05-19T20:05:58-04:00May 19th, 2022|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Following a partially-successful mission in late 2019, ULA will launch a second uncrewed orbital test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The mission will lift off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on an Atlas V N22 rocket with no payload fairing, two Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket boosters, and a Centaur upper stage [...]

SpaceX Axiom-1 Astronaut Splashdown 🔴 Live

By |2022-04-25T14:38:27-04:00April 25th, 2022|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Axiom Mission 1 (or #AX1) is a planned private crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS), operated by Axiom Space out of #Axiom Space's Mission Control Center (or MCC-A) in Houston, TX. The flight sent four private astronauts to the ISS: Michael López-Alegría, a professionally trained astronaut hired by Axiom Space, Eytan Stibbe from [...]

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