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NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Commercial Crew Program Artwork Contest

By |2023-12-21T13:44:00-05:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA received more than 3,000 entries from around the world for this year’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Children’s Artwork Calendar contest. Of those, the agency has selected 36 first-, second-, and third-place winners to display in the calendar for 2024. The contest invited children to submit original artwork related to four overarching themes: rockets [...]

Mission Specialist Assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 Mission

By |2023-11-22T09:58:00-05:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk joins NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Scott Tingle as part of NASA’s Boeing Starlier-1 mission crew. Photo credit: NASACSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been selected as a mission specialist for NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission – the first crew rotation flight for the spacecraft to the [...]

Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station

By |2023-10-23T14:17:00-04:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 19, 2023, the Starliner team works to finalize the mate of the crew module and new service module for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test that will take NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from [...]

NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

By |2023-10-12T11:01:00-04:00October 12th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The International Space Station’s U.S. segment and portions of the Russian segment are pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. Prominent at the top in this view, are the Columbus [...]

Crew-6 Returns Safely to Earth after Splashdown

By |2023-09-04T00:21:00-04:00September 4th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour is seen as it splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT, returning Crew-6 to Earth. Credits: NASA TV.NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour in [...]

Deorbit Burn Complete

By |2023-09-03T23:40:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 crew members are seen inside the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft during their return to Earth on Sept. 3, 2023. Photo credit: NASA TVThe SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev on their return to Earth after a [...]

Crew-6 Coming Up on Deorbit Burn for Splashdown

By |2023-09-03T23:06:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour with four Crew-6 members aboard approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port on March 3, 2023. Aboard Endeavour, were Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey [...]

Hatch Closed, Dragon Leaving Station Soon Live on NASA TV

By |2023-09-03T05:34:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The four SpaceX Crew-6 members (from left) Andrey Fedyaev, Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, and Sultan Alnedayi, are pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour prior to launching in March. Credit: SpaceXAt 5:19 a.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to [...]

Four Crewmates Prepare to Leave Station in Dragon Live on NASA TV

By |2023-09-03T04:59:00-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left, are SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Commander Stephen Bowen, Pilot Woody Hoburg, and Mission Specialist Sultan Alneyadi. Credit: SpaceXWatch live coverage now on NASA TV, the NASA app and the agency’s website as hatch closure and undocking preparations are underway for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, [...]

Weather Remains Primary Concern for Crew-6 Return

By |2023-09-01T19:57:00-04:00September 1st, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The official SpaceX Crew-6 portrait with (from left), Mission Specialist and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi; Pilot Woody Hoburg and Commander Stephen Bowen, both NASA astronauts; and Mission Specialist and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.NASA and SpaceX met Friday evening to continue close evaluations of weather conditions around Florida’s coastline as they consider [...]

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