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Watch: Blue Origin crew experience weightlessness as capsule enters space
Footage recorded inside the capsule during Blue Origin’s all-female flight to the edge of space shows crew members, including ...
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Recap: NASA astronauts return in SpaceX capsule after 9 months in space
As they exited the spacecraft, however, the crew was all smiles and looking ... the nation would lose its ability to fly astronauts. When the space shuttle program ended in 2011, for example ...
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Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
Three years after the space ... decided to keep the astronauts aboard the station until early this year when they could hitch a ride home aboard a Crew Dragon. That spacecraft was launched ...
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Who are the NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for 9 months?
Their first flights were aboard NASA’s space shuttle, followed by Russia’s Soyuz capsule ... fly again — with astronauts or just cargo. NASA went into its commercial crew program wanting ...
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SpaceX to launch private Crew Dragon flight around Earth’s poles
A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth’s poles ...
Capsule with 1 American, 2 Russians returns to Earth from International Space Station
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station ...
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The Astronaut Question
When the space shuttle ... while “astronauts always want manual controls,” but it’s not always so. After Apollo 8, that crew suggested that the task of slowly rotating the spacecraft during ...
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Deer: Space cargo, not crew
Women have made profound sacrifices in the U.S. space program, showcasing immense courage and dedication. Judith Resnik and ...
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Astronauts who were stuck in space say they'd fly on Boeing's spacecraft again
Why were the astronauts stuck in space so long? Three years after the space shuttle's retirement ... and whether the spacecraft could be trusted to safely bring its crew back to Earth.