Welcome back! NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are home at last. They spent nine months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Long-term ISS missions aren’t unusual, except these particular astronauts weren’t planning on an extended stay. Williams and Wilmore rode to the station on a crewed Boeing Starliner test mission in June. … Read more
They’re all together now. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission docked with the International Space Station just after midnight ET Sunday, and at 1:35 a.m., opened the hatches between their Space Dragon spacecraft and the ISS, meeting up with the crew already there. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, … Read more
The’ve arrived. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission docked with the International Space Station just after midnight Sunday. Liftoff went smoothly, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, to space. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration … Read more
At last, they’re off. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission are on their way to the International Space Station. Liftoff went smoothly, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, to space. Why was the SpaceX Crew-10 launch delayed? NASA had … Read more
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been on the International Space Station for more than eight months, even though they initially expected to stay for just about eight days. It’s finally time to come home, and their replacements are on the way. A relief crew for the ISS launched Friday, after … Read more
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been on the International Space Station for more than eight months, even though they initially expected to stay for just about eight days. But it’s finally time to come home. A relief crew for the ISS is expected to launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center … Read more
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. But Williams told PBS NewsHour recently that they don’t feel abandoned by NASA. “Obviously, there’s a lot of discussion about it, so maybe people could conceive … Read more
On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, atmospheric friction warmed up its heat shield so much that molten debris flew off. Rapid deceleration imposed more than six times the force … Read more
