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NASA, SpaceX declare Crew-2 astronaut mission 'go' for Thursday launch in final review

That mission, called Crew-2, will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:11 a.m. EST (1011 GMT) on Thursday morning (April 22) from NASA's historic Pad 39A and Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will be the second flight of this particular Crew Dragon.

NASA, SpaceX watching weather in downrange abort zones for crew launch

Liftoff of the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set for 6:11:35 a.m. EDT (1011:35 GMT) Thursday from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

NASA chief: Russian cosmonauts unlikely fly on US crew capsules until next year

Steve Jurczyk, NASA's acting administrator, said Tuesday that the draft version of an "implementing agreement" between NASA and Roscosmos is still being reviewed by the U.S. State Department. "We're waiting for ...

Small NASA rocket will study boundary of interstellar space

For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space. A mission called Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) will lift off from the White Sands ...

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Why NASA Picked SpaceX to Land Humans on the Moon

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NASA's Artemis program will use the SLS to blast astronauts to lunar orbit aboard Orion, where they will meet up with a previously-emplaced lunar lander to travel to the surface and back. Orion in the future will also dock with the Gateway, a small space station ...

Boeing pushes second Starliner test flight to late summer

The second test flight for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, known as the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, won't lift off until late this summer. After months of delays, NASA and Boeing have pushed the launch from April to no earlier than August, citing ...

Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars (Update)

In this image from NASA, NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity hovers above the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, ...

Dragon crew rehearses for launch day, first-look weather forecast looks good

The four astronauts, led by veteran NASA commander Shane Kimbrough, will fly with a Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Kimbrough and NASA crewmate Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide of Japan, and Thomas ...

Mars: How Ingenuity helicopter made the first flight on another planet

Your helicopter rises, hovers, then at the next command moves forward. Oops, it didn't go high enough. You quickly move the joystick and the drone rises to fly above the obstruction. Finally it's in the air, moving at speed above sand dunes, hills and valleys— ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity: What happens next, second flight, future missions

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Ingenuity takes flight on Mars in this NASA animation. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Ingenuity did it! On April 19, the NASA chopper took to the skies over Mars, hovering briefly above the surface before returning to land. But the feat, a turning point in otherworldly ...