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 MoreAfter more than a decade of service, Japan’s final first-generation HTV cargo resupply spacecraft has departed the International Space Station, setting the stage for a new HTV-X vehicle capable of service in low Earth orbit and beyond.
Read MoreAfter two months aboard the International Space Station, Dragonship Endeavour with its two-person astronaut crew is back on Earth, having splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
Read MoreThe Russian Progress MS-15 cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station in a reported record time to deliver supplies and experiments to the Expedition 63 crew, despite a last-second docking misalignment.
Read MoreNASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken completed their fourth spacewalk in less than a month to upgrade the International Space Station, setting the stage for future additions to the 20-year-old outpost.
Read MoreOne of the main reasons the Demo-2 crew — NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken — is staying aboard the International Space Station for so long is so they can help the Expedition 63 crew, commanded by NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, with various tasks aboard the outpost, including the final test of battery upgrades on the external truss.
Read MoreThe Demo-2 Crew Dragon capsule, which its astronaut riders, NASA's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, named Endeavour — after the space shuttle they both first flew into space aboard — has been docked to the forward docking port on the space station's Harmony module since May 31, 2020.
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 MoreFor nearly nine years, the United States relied a Russian spacecraft to get American astronauts to the International Space Station. With the launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and two NASA astronauts, that reliance has ended.
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