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After a sacrifice of fowl. |Leaving the|A|Using} “thorough review, ” NASA awards additional astronaut flights to SpaceX

Enlarge / The Crew-2 mission is seen departing the International Space Station in November 2021. (credit: SpaceX) NASA has announced that it will purchase three additional flights for its astronauts to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle. The announcement , posted on the space agency’s website late on Friday afternoon, follows a […]

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After a rapid turnaround from a Crew Dragon landing, another one is set to fly

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 B1067.2 and Crew Dragon spacecraft at LC-39A in advance of the Crew-3 mission: slated for liftoff no earlier than 9:03 pm EST on November 10th, 2021. [credit: Trevor Mahlmann ] NASA and SpaceX had originally hoped to fly the next bunch of astronauts to the International Space Station in late October, but […]

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Double Dragon: NASA plans a SpaceX splashdown on Monday, launch Wednesday

Enlarge / The launch of the Crew-3 mission spacecraft, shown here, has been on hold since before Halloween. (credit: NASA) NASA and SpaceX plan to return one Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit on Monday evening and launch another only about two days later, upon Wednesday night. The particular agency’s crew flight plans have been in […]

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Starliner delayed again, and its launch window may close soon

Enlarge / Close-up of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule, white room attached, atop the mighty Atlas V launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-41. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) For a week leading up the much-anticipated launch of Boeing’s Starliner test flight on Tuesday, officials with NASA and the aerospace company said the spacecraft and its Atlas V […]