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    NASA Hosts Crew-9 Space Station 101 Social Panel

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 logo with the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building in the background at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

    NASA will host an International Space Station 101 panel livestream at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Sept 27. Agency experts will provide an overview about the space station, operations, science, living and working in space, and take questions from reporters and social media. Participants in the livestream panel include: NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free Robyn Gatens, director, …

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    NASA Hosts Crew-9 Space Station 101 Social Panel

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 logo with the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building in the background at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

    NASA will host an International Space Station 101 panel livestream at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Sept 27. Agency experts will provide an overview about the space station, operations, science, living and working in space, and take questions from reporters and social media. Participants in the livestream panel include: NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free Robyn Gatens, director, …

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    Orion’s Artemis III European Service Module Joined with Crew Module Adapter

    Teams began connecting the European Service Module 3 to the crew module adapter.

    Teams have joined the Artemis III European Service Module and crew module adapter for NASA’s Orion spacecraft inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the completion of the Integration Readiness Review on Sept. 17. The ESA (European Space Agency)-provided European Service Module is assembled …

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    SpaceX Crew-9 Nears Launch During Station Upkeep Duties

    Hurricane Helene is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico heading toward Florida's Gulf Coast in this photograph from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

    Two SpaceX Crew-9 crewmates are counting down to a Saturday launch, weather permitting, and beginning a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Meanwhile, crew departure preparations and lab maintenance duties were ongoing for the Expedition 72 orbital residents on Thursday. Commander Nick Hague of NASA and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos are at …

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    NASA, SpaceX Complete Launch Rehearsal, Falcon 9 Static Fire

    To prepare for NASA’s Crew-9 mission, SpaceX fired the nine Merlin first-stage engines of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket during a routine static fire test on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The successful static fire test allows NASA and SpaceX to move forward with launch …

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    Fueling Complete on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft

    Technicians completed loading propellants in the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 22, inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Housed in the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission, Europa Clipper’s propulsion module is an aluminum cylinder 10 feet (3 meters) long and 5 …

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    Crew Rotation Preps Continue Amidst Human Research on Station

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket performs a brief static fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida before the launch of the Crew-9 mission. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

    As one crew on Earth prepares to launch to the International Space Station another crew is getting ready to depart the orbital outpost. In the meantime, human research is underway as the Expedition 72 crew members continue exploring how their bodies are adapting to microgravity. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket is …

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    Williams Leads Station as Crew Swap Operations Continue

    NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore make pizza aboard the International Space Station's galley located inside the Unity module.

    Expedition 72 is officially underway with NASA astronaut Suni Williams as its commander aboard the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the nine orbital residents are awaiting more visitors while also preparing for the next crew departure. Williams took command of the orbital outpost when NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai …

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    NASA, SpaceX Shift Crew-9 Launch to NET Sept. 28 Over Weather Concerns

    NASA and SpaceX teams have adjusted the next launch opportunity for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida due to expected tropical storm conditions in the area. The change allows teams to complete a rehearsal of launch day activities Tuesday …

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