Category: iss

Boeing delays its first Starliner test flight until August

Post author By Randall
Post date April 3, 2019
Categories In boeing, commercial space travel, delay, extension, gear, international space station, iss, Nasa, Space, spacecraft, starliner, Tech, test flight, tomorrow, Transportation, uncrewed
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[ad_1] While NASA and Boeing once said they’d launch the uncrewed Starliner in August 2018, skeptics always had doubts that the two would meet that goal. Initial delays were no surprise. Now, NASA says the new August 2019 date is due to limited launch opportunities this spring and early summer. In a press release, NASA […]

An ill-fitting spacesuit cancels NASA’s first all-female spacewalk

Post author By Randall
Post date March 26, 2019
Categories In anne mcclain, christina koch, gear, h.u.t., hard upper torso, iss, Nasa, nick hague, Space, spacewalk, Tech
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[ad_1] A historic spacewalk was scheduled to occur this week, with only women operating outside the ISS for the first time ever. News of the event was revealed earlier this month when a flight controller tweeted about the schedule, but as NASA noted at the time “assignments and schedules could always change.” Now that has […]

Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon return to Earth starting at 2 AM ET

Post author By Randall
Post date March 7, 2019
Categories In commercial crew program, Crew Dragon, gear, iss, Nasa, Space, Spacex, Tech
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[ad_1] Just about a week after launching on its inaugural voyage, the SpaceX Crew Dragon has one more step to complete: returning to Earth. First, the uncrewed spacecraft will undock from the International Docking Adapter on the ISS that it has called home for the last few days, which is scheduled to occur at about […]