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    NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions Live Coverage Begins

    Good evening, and welcome to live launch coverage of NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions!  The SPHEREx mission will search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy and improve our understanding of how the universe …

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    Station Readies for Upcoming SpaceX Crew Swap, Keeps Up Space Research

    The Expedition 72 crew poses for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Harmony module with a cake commemorating a total of 3,000 cumulative days in space gained between the individual crew members. In the front row (from left), are Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan vagner, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. In the back (from left), are NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, and NASA astronaut Suni Williams.

    The SpaceX Falcon rocket that will launch the Crew-10 mission aboard the Dragon crew spacecraft to the International Space Station stands at its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. Crew-10 is counting down to its liftoff targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. For an on-time launch, the Crew-10 foursome would dock to the International Space Station at 6 a.m. on Thursday and begin their long-duration mission as Expedition 72 flight engineers.

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    NASA, SpaceX Complete Dry Dress Rehearsal

    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, is vertical at the launch pad of Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, ahead of the agency's SpaceX Crew-10 launch to the International Space Station. Photo credit: SpaceX

    Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission are in the final stages of launch preparations after completing a dry dress rehearsal on March 9 at NASA’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 […]

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    NASA, SpaceX Set New Date for Two Science Missions

    NASA and SpaceX set a new launch date of no earlier than Monday, March 10 for the launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions on a Falcon 9 rocket. With the change to Daylight Saving Time, the launch is now targeted for 11:10 p.m. EDT (8:10 p.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 4 East …

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    NASA, SpaceX Stand Down on Launch for SPHEREx, PUNCH

    NASA and SpaceX are standing down for tonight’s launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. The additional time will allow teams to continue rocket checkouts ahead of liftoff. A new launch date will be announced once confirmed on the range. Visit the NASA website for more information about SPHEREx and PUNCH.

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Discuss Upcoming Mission

    Image shows four astronauts as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission set to fly to the International Space Station in March 2025.

    The four crew members set to fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission next week will speak to the media at 7:30 p.m. EST today about their upcoming launch from crew quarters from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Watch the crew members discuss their mission. Learn […]

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Proceeds Toward Launch, Hosts News Conference 

    An image of crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission seated inside the spacecraft during an equipment test at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    NASA, SpaceX, and international partner teams polled “go” to continue launch preparations following the conclusion of the Flight Readiness Review today at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 remains targeted to launch at 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 12, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at […]

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    New: Update to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Media Briefings for Today

    NASA now will host a media teleconference about 6:30 p.m. EST today on the flight readiness review for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. The briefing also will cover the Crew-9 mission return from the microgravity laboratory.

    The Flight Readiness Review briefing participants include:

    • Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
    • Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
    • Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
    • William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX
    • Junichi Sakai, manager, International Space Station Program, JAXA

    NASA will provide audio-only coverage of the teleconference.

    At 7:30 p.m., NASA will host the Crew-10 crew news conference (or directly following the completion of the mission overview news conference) with the following participants:

    • Anne McClain, Crew-10 spacecraft commander, NASA
    • Nichole Ayers, Crew-10 pilot, NASA
    • Takuya Onishi, Crew-10 mission specialist, JAXA
    • Kirill Peskov, Crew-10 mission specialist, Roscosmos

    Watch live coverage of the mission overview news conference on NASA+.