SpaceX's Crew-9 astronaut flight for NASA launches this week. Here's how it turned into a rescue mission
SpaceX's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station on Sept. 26 will be a rescue mission of sorts, bringing up empty seats for two NASA astronauts currently in space without a ride home.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams becomes International Space Station Commander
This comes after Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko hands over station command to NASA astronaut Sunita Williams as he prepares to return to Earth after 6 months.
NASA astronaut joins 2 Russian cosmonauts for Soyuz flight to space station
Don Pettit is replacing astronaut Tracy Dyson, who plans to return to Earth on Sept. 23, after a six-month stay aboard the space station.
SpaceX Crew-9 astronaut launch delayed to Sept. 26
Nick Hague, an active US Space Force Guardian, will lead the next ISS mission in his role as a NASA astronaut. The mission is now targeting a Sept. 26 liftoff.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 arrives at KSC to prep for launch, teaming up with Starliner astronauts
Crew-9's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX launch to retrieve NASA astronauts highlights growing lead over Boeing in commercial space industry
Elon Musk’s firm will be tasked with completing a mission Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft could not: returning two NASA astronauts back to Earth.
NASA-SpaceX Crew-9 mission to launch ‘without pilot’, Sunita Williams to come home on Dragon: ‘Countdown begins’
The NASA-SpaceX Crew-9 mission has been tasked to bring back Starliner stronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from space. Here's all you need to know about it.
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Watch NASA astronaut, 2 record-breaking cosmonauts head home to Earth on Sept. 23
A NASA astronaut and two record-setting Russian cosmonauts are set to head back to Earth on Monday (Sept. 23), and you can ...
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NASA Prepares for Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Two Cosmonaut Crewmates Return to Earth Sept. 23 Aboard Soyuz
(NASA) – NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from ...
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Harris County astronaut still plans to vote in 2024 election despite being stranded in space
Texas first passed a law in 1997 that allows astronauts to vote if they will be in space during early voting and on Election ...
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'Space for Birds': Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)
Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought ...
NASA astronaut and UC Davis alum Tracy C. Dyson speaks with KCRA 3 live from ISS
Tracy C. Dyson is from Arcadia and earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997. The Expedition 71 flight engineer is on the ISS as part of her third mission to space. She previously was a ...
At $85 million CT tech high school, lathes, robots, cybersecurity war room and astronaut training center
Before the 2025 school year begins late next summer, Goodwin University plans to build its 90,000-square-foot NextTech ...
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Astronaut still plans to vote in 2024 election despite being stranded in space
NASA astronaut and Harris County resident Butch Wilmore said he still plans to vote in the upcoming November election even ...
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Astronaut captures stunning timelapse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from ISS (video)
A video filmed by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shows a rare glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as seen from the ...