With the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission in the history books, NASA is looking toward the first operational flight of the Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX's Crew-1 mission, as well as the second uncrewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner later this year.
Read MoreWith everything reportedly going well for the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA has announced dates for a series of upcoming spacewalks to continue replacing batteries aboard the outpost’s exterior truss.
Read MoreWith the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission underway, we’re starting to get a better picture of how the International Space Station crew manifest will look later this year and into 2021.
Read MoreIn the first human spaceflight launch of 2020, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut were sent to the International Space Station to begin a six-month stay in space.
Read MoreNASA astronaut Christina Koch, along with European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, returned to Earth after a record-breaking stay aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreAs the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, three people left Earth to join the International Space Station’s Expedition 60 crew. Launching in their Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano raced toward the outpost to dock just four orbits later.
Read MoreThree International Space Station crew members returned to Earth in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft, bringing an end to their 204-day mission. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques landed safely at 02:47 UTC June 25, 2019, on the Kazakh Steppe in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreNASA said assignments for the next two spacewalks outside the International Space Station have been changed because of “spacesuit availability.”
On Mach 25, 2019, NASA said Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nick Hague will switch spacewalking assignments.
Read MoreThree people made a fiery return to Earth in a Soyuz capsule after spending 197 days in space, mostly aboard the International Space Station.
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst landed in a frigid Kazakhstan at 5:02 UTC Dec. 20, 2018 in their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft’s descent module.
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