Since then, Endeavour has also flown theCrew-2andCrew-6missions for NASA and theAx-1 private missionfor Houston-based company Axiom Space in 2022. Crew-8 therefore marks five flights for Endeavour, the most of any Crew Dragon, making it the "fleet leader," said Steve Stich, manager for ...
SpaceX has been launching astronauts to theInternational Space Station(ISS) for NASA and returning them to Earth since 2020. The company's current astronaut mission for NASA, Crew-9, launched on Sept. 28 and will soon be relieved by the arrival of Crew-10. Crew-10 launched on a SpaceX ...
On Monday, construction crews began hoisting the crew access arm into place using a series of cranes and harnesses. This is one of the last major components that needs to be in place, in addition to the emergency egress system, a zip-line-like escape system that would allow astronauts and ...
Although innovation across the aerospace sector makes these ambitions technologically achievable, the biomedical challenges for crews in these extraplanetary habitats still need to be addressed, as humans did not evolve to survive in such extreme environments. The clinical consequences of this evolutionary ...
That flight will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which has flown three crews of government astronauts to the ISS since May last year under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The ride for Ax-2 hasn’t been confirmed yet, Axiom says, and the two other Ax-2 crewmates are still being ...
Currently, the NASA astronaut corps is focused on training crews for test flights and eventual missions on the International Space Station (ISS). Learn more about the ISS here. Future training will also help build and crew NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, which will be capable of ...
With the software development largely behind them, the Boeing team is making its final evaluations and crews are set to begin using the headset full-time in their training. “The ability to connect and jointly train astronauts from various countries, agencies, and private partnerships will be espe...
Soyuz MS-19/65S: Touchdown! At 7:28am EDT (1128 UTC); Russian recovery crews are now moving in to help the crew out of the cramped capsule as they begin readjusting to the unfamiliar tug of gravity — William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews)March 30, 2022 ...
The crews she served on contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development. Some of the scientific highlights from her missions include improvements to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which studies dark matter, growing protein ...
“I’d like to underline how remarkably well-prepared they are based on their backgrounds as military aviators with many, many years of operational experience,” López-Alegría said during a December news conference. “Very similar to some of the crews that I was able to train with when I ...