SpaceX Falcon 9 delivering four astronauts to International Space Station
The SpaceX rocket blasted off Sunday evening.
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The SpaceX rocket blasted off Sunday evening.
The crew includes a legendary retired astronaut, a wealthy adventurer and two Saudi astronauts — the first people from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to visit the space station.
The Crew Dragon delivered a three-country, four-man crew for a six-month stay. They'll replace four other station crew members who plan to return to Earth around March 9.
The four Crew Dragon fliers will replace another crew that will be wrapping up a 154-day stay in orbit.
The next attempt could come as early as Tuesday
The new roll-out solar arrays will help make up for age-related degradation in the International Space Station's original solar wings.
Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio float outside the space station to install the third of six new roll-out solar blankets.
They're bringing an end to their nearly six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory
The first all-private mission to the International Space Station returned to Earth on Monday after several delays.
The first all-private mission to the International Space Station is due to begin its return trip Sunday evening after a string of delays dragged the mission out for a week longer than expected because of weather and other inopportune circumstances
The return of SpaceX's first all-private astronaut crew from the International Space Station is delayed at least a day.
In a historic first, a crew of four civilians are taking a ride into orbit after successfully launching on a journey to the International Space Station on Friday as part of an inaugural mission for the commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space.
NASA intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to newly published plans outlining its future.
The returning astronauts should have been back Monday morning, but high wind in the recovery zone delayed their homecoming.
A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday.
A piece of space junk has damaged a robotic arm on the outside of the International Space Station.
Four astronauts are back down on Earth after SpaceX makes an overnight splashdown – the first since 1968.
Four astronauts are preparing to return home from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, ending their five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts set a record for the longest time in space by a crew that launched aboard an American-built spacecraft.
A pair of spacewalking astronauts completed the first round of prep work Friday for new solar panels, part of a major power upgrade at the International Space Station.
On Sunday, two astronauts installed support frames on the International Space Station for new solar panels arriving later this year.
A four year effort to modernize the International Space Station's power grid was completed on Monday when a pair of spacewalking astronauts installed one last battery.
A team of four astronauts who blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday has arrived at the International Space Station.
A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts soared into outer space from Cape Canaveral on Sunday evening.
The four astronauts part of the second SpaceX crew launch arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday.
Saturday's historic launch has been met with a smooth docking, as the two NASA astronauts riding in a SpaceX capsule have reached the International Space Station less than a day later.
