Tag: Human Spaceflight
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SpaceX’s first rocket built for humans test-fired in Texas
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was test-fired Aug. 29 at the company’s test site in McGregor, Texas. The booster will launch NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX The Falcon 9 booster assigned to launch two NASA astronauts on an orbital test flight of…
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SpaceX’s Dragon capsule back on Earth with 3,400 pounds of cargo
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft flies over the Canadian Rocky Mountains in this view captured from the International Space Station after the supply ship departed Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Christina Koch A SpaceX Dragon supply ship departed the International Space Station and returned to Earth Tuesday to conclude its third round-trip flight to the orbiting research outpost, bringing home…
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Live coverage: Dragon supply ship returns to Earth
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. SpaceX and NASA will not provide live video coverage of the splashdown. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…
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Soyuz capsule swaps docking ports on space station, clearing way for new arrival
In this video still, the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft is seen docked at the Poisk module on the International Space Station after a manual flyaround conducted by cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Flying by hand, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov undocked his Soyuz space capsule from the International Space Station late Sunday (U.S. time)…
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Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) with docking and undocking times. Expedition 60 flight engineer Luca Parmitano trains inside the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft before launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/GCTC Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, joined by Italian flight engineer Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, plans to relocate his…
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Spacewalkers help install new space station docking port
NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Nick Hague (out of view) helped install a new docking port on the International Space Station during a spacewalk Wednesday. Credit: NASA TV NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Drew Morgan completed a 6-hour, 32-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday to help connect a newly-arrived docking port to the…
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NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will manage the agency’s plans to build a lunar landing system that will carry the next man and the first woman to the surface of the moon in…
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Watch SpaceX Dragon launch pad escape system testing
A slide wire escape system has been undergoing tests at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in readiness for the first SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. The system could be used by astronauts and ground crews to evacuate the launch pad in an emergency and is…
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Cygnus supply ship departs space station, begins extended mission
The Cygnus spacecraft begins a departure burn after release from the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Wrapping up 109 days attached to the International Space Station, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship departed the orbiting research lab Tuesday to begin an extended four-month mission for additional technology demonstrations and smallsat deployments.…
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Progress cargo freighter lifts off, reaches space station hours later
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated after launch and docking. The Progress MS-12 supply ship approaches the International Space Station on Wednesday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian Progress cargo freighter lifted off Wednesday from Kazakhstan on top of a Soyuz-2.1a booster and completed a record-breaking 3-hour, 19-minute pursuit of the International Space Station with an automated docking to…