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    Dreams Become Reality for NASA’s Boeing Flight Test Crew

    Momentum is building for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test launch, scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2024. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived in a T-38 jet April 25 at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a short flight from Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space …

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    NASA, Boeing Crew Lands in Florida for Starliner Mission

    NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams landed April 25, at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a short flight from Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Paying homage to their piloting days as retired U.S. Navy captains, they flew to Kennedy in a …

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    NASA, Boeing Crew Lands in Florida for Starliner Mission

    NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams landed April 25, at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a short flight from Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Paying homage to their piloting days as retired U.S. Navy captains, they flew to Kennedy in a …

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    Dragon Undocking Targeted for No Earlier Than Sunday

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station's Harmony module at 7:19 a.m. EDT Saturday, March 23, 2024. Credit: NASA TV

    Due to unfavorable weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida, NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 28, for the undocking of the Dragon spacecraft from the space-facing port of the International Space Station as part of company’s 30th commercial resupply services mission for the agency. Learn …

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    Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk for Hardware, Science Work

    Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (left) and Nikolai Chub (right) are pictured during a spacewalk on Oct.25, 2023, working on the Nauka science module.

    Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began a spacewalk at 10:57 a.m. EDT to complete the deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar communications system on the Russian segment of the complex and install equipment and experiments to analyze the level of corrosion on station surfaces and modules. NASA’s coverage will continue on …

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    Roscosmos Spacewalkers Exiting Station Soon Live on NASA TV

    Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (left) and Nikolai Chub (right) are pictured during a spacewalk on Oct.25, 2023, to install and inspect hardware.

    NASA Television coverage is underway for today’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. The duo will venture outside the station’s Poisk airlock to complete the deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar system on the Nauka module and install equipment and experiments on the Poisk module to analyze the level of …

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    NASA, Boeing Crew Fly Jet to Florida for Starliner Launch

    Photo of NASA, Boeing Crew Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

    The two NASA astronauts that will fly aboard a new spacecraft for the first time to the International Space Station are on their way on Thursday to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final launch preparations.  NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT Monday, May 6, for …

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    NASA, Boeing Crew Fly Jet to Florida for Starliner Launch

    Photo of NASA, Boeing Crew Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

    The two NASA astronauts that will fly aboard a new spacecraft for the first time to the International Space Station are on their way on Thursday to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final launch preparations.  NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT Monday, May 6, for …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/24/2024

    Payloads: In-Space Production Application – Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory – 02 (InSPA-PIL-02): Sample cassettes were removed from Modules B and C and were prepared and stowed for return. A cassette from Module A was removed and installed into Module C. More information on this experiment can be found here. Cardiobreath BioMonitor:  The BioMonitor hardware and garment …

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    Spacewalkers Get Ready as Crew Packs Dragon with Science

    Astronaut Matthew Dominick (center) poses with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (left) and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub (right) while preparing Orlan spacesuits for a spacewalk.

    The Expedition 71 crew is getting ready for a spacewalk on Thursday while finishing payload operations inside a U.S. cargo craft before its return to Earth. The International Space Station residents also investigated antibiotic resistance and participated in a cardiorespiratory study on Wednesday. Two cosmonauts will exit the orbital outpost’s Poisk airlock at 10:55 a.m. …

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