SpaceX cleared for astronaut launch to ISS
In a historic first, NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to fly astronauts on a reused Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Mark Strassmann reports from the Kennedy Space Center.
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In a historic first, NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to fly astronauts on a reused Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Mark Strassmann reports from the Kennedy Space Center.
Launch will mark SpaceX's third piloted flight to orbit and the first with a "used" Crew Dragon ferry ship.
NASA optimistic weather will cooperate for a Friday launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station.
One of the most out-of-this-world travel destinations is the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles above the Earth, where scientific studies include the effects of long-term exposure to weightlessness. Correspondent David Pogue talks with astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, currently in orbit aboard the ISS, and with Peggy Whitson, who set a record for the most time spent in space by an American – 665 days.
The Falcon 9 test firing and a dress rehearsal countdown set the stage for Thursday's Crew Dragon launch.
Three space station fliers returned to Earth amid preparations for SpaceX Crew Dragon launch Thursday.
The flight will mark the third piloted launch of SpaceX's futuristic astronaut ferry ship.
A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from Kazakhstan carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts to the International Space Station. Watch NASA's live coverage of the launch.
A NASA astronaut joins two Russians for Friday's trip to the International Space Station.
The short "taxi" flight clears the way for arrival of another Crew Dragon later this month.
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover spoke to CBSN Boston from the International Space Station about the Artemis moon mission and the recent Mars rover landing. Watch their interview.
Astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins performed a six-hour long maintenance upgrade on the International Space Station— all while floating in space some 250 miles above Earth.
This was the 237th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998.
Mark Vande Hei's seat was arranged through Houston-based Axiom Space.
Multiple spacewalks are planned to improve the space station's solar power system.
Multiple spacewalks planned to upgrade the space station's aging power system
On Sunday, two NASA astronauts stepped into space, working outside the International Space Station for six hours installing new upgrades to the station’s 20-year-old solar power system.
The Cygnus cargo ship is loaded with more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and equipment.
The Russian Progress cargo ship blasted off from Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz booster carrying 2-and-a-half tons of supplies and equipment.
Monday's spacewalk was the second of four planned by the space station's current crew.
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover ventured outside the International Space Station on Monday for a spacewalk to complete battery replacement and install new camera equipment. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers and Anne-Marie Green have details.
Axiom Space hopes to send the first flight of private citizens to the International Space Station in 2022. Entrepreneur and nonprofit activist investor Larry Connor, who will serve as the pilot for the historic mission, joined CBSN to discuss what he's trying to accomplish with this trip.
New experiment platform only partially activated after spacewalkers have problems with balky cables
The proposed historic mission is aiming for a January 2022 launch date aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
The launching was the first of 40 or more SpaceX flights planned for 2021.