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 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, are experiencing 2 g while SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9...

Fuel loading is complete on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage. Everything remains on target for the 7:03 p.m. EDT scheduled launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  In just a few moments, a rapid series of events will take place when the SpaceX Falcon 9 begins engine...

Following a successful landing on March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has been operating on the lunar surface for nearly two weeks. As part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Mare Crisium basin on the near...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, have received the “go” for tonight’s launch to the International Space Station. Liftoff is less than an hour away.  The launch team just verified controllers can soon begin loading...

Tonight’s mission to the International Space Station will be a first for some of the members of Crew-10.  Born in Spokane, Washington, this is NASA astronaut Anne McClain’s second spaceflight to the space station since becoming an astronaut with the agency in 2013. During her first mission, McClain spent 204 days as a flight engineer...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, boarded their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.  Over the next 45 minutes, the crew will conduct communication checks with mission control, check their spacesuits for any leaks, and rotate their seats...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, have arrived at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Since the late 1960s, pads A and B at NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 have supported...