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SpaceX Crew-8 mission had a safe splashdown and recovery after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, at 3:29 a.m. local time — the space agency’s eighth commercial crew ...
Currently there are two fully operational space stations – the ISS and China's Tiangong Space Station (TSS), which have been occupied since October 2000 with Expedition 1 and since June 2022 with Shenzhou 14. The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS ...
NASA has stressed from the get-go that in an emergency at the space station — like a fire or decompression — Starliner could still be used by the pair as a lifeboat to leave.
For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD) performed this check via a voice communications link with other NASA personnel. The NTD was the leader of the shuttle test team responsible for directing and integrating all flight crew, orbiter, external tank/solid rocket booster and ...
Tiangong space station: CMSA; 3 29 April 2021 in orbit 1339 1209 24 8 8 22,600 kg (49,800 lb) 110 m 3 (3,880 cu ft) (planned) Soviet/Russian space stations.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams crewed Boeing’s first astronaut flight to the space station, taking off on 5 June 2024 for an 8-day mission that has now extended to beyond eight months.
During the news conference, Expedition 21 astronaut Robert Thirsk said "The space station now is nearly complete". The station is currently about 86% complete. Aboard the Destiny laboratory at 15:00 UTC shortly after a joint crew photo, Frank De Winne, the first European Space Agency commander of the Space Station handed over his command to ...
Starliner was expected to dock at the space station by 12:15 p.m. ET, but the thruster issue caused a delay of an hour and 15 minutes, and the mission moved on to a new docking window.