Tag: Crew Dragon
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Live coverage: Four astronauts return home after 167 days in space
Live coverage of the undocking, re-entry and splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SFN LIVE”] [tabbyending] EDITOR’S NOTE: NASA TV’s live coverage of hatch closure, undocking, and splashdown begins at 6 p.m.…
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Dragon Resilience returns to Earth, completing first operational Commercial Crew mission
NASA and SpaceX teams have returned NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth, completing the historic Crew-1 mission. Crew Dragon Resilience splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:57 AM EDT (06:57 UTC) on…
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Astronauts describe thrilling ride to orbit on Falcon 9 rocket
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION When the countdown hit zero last Friday and the engines powering a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage roared to life for takeoff, the four astronauts strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon some 21 stories up started laughing. “So we’re sitting on the launch pad, obviously, and when…
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Crew Dragon return postponed again by poor weather
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) with new undocking and splashdown times. NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, pilot Victor Glover, Crew-1 commander Mike Hopkins, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA/Thomas Pesquet The departure and return to Earth of a four-person space station crew on a SpaceX Dragon capsule…
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Return of SpaceX crew capsule delayed by high winds
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft during a port relocation maneuver outside the International Space Station on April 5. Credit: NASA High winds predicted off the coast of Florida this week will keep SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft and its four-person crew in orbit until Saturday, three days after their previously scheduled return to Earth from…
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With SpaceX crew docking, it’s a full house on the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, commander of the Crew-1 mission, tweeted this picture of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA/Mike Hopkins A refurbished SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship linked up with the International Space Station early Saturday more than 260 miles above Earth, delivering four veteran astronauts to the…
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Crew Dragon Endeavour returns to station on Crew-2 mission
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Meghan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japanese Space Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide have joined the Expedition 64 crew as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour docked successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:08 AM EDT (09:08 UTC) on Saturday 24 April. Crew-2 is the first crewed…
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SpaceX launches astronauts on recycled capsule and ‘flight-proven’ rocket
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with four astronauts heading for the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a multinational crew into orbit at the break of dawn Friday with a spectacular sky-lighting launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…
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Crew-2 mission timeline
The timeline below covers major vehicle and crew activities during the Crew-2 countdown and rendezvous with the International Space Station. All times assume liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:49:02 a.m. EDT (0949:02 GMT) on Friday, April 23. All times in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).…
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Live coverage: Crew Dragon spacecraft docks with International Space Station
Live coverage of the countdown and flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, and Crew-2 astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet on a flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX launch webcast”] [tabbyending]