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After setting an altitude record and staging the first non-government spacewalk, billionaire Jared Isaacman and his three crewmates returned to Earth early Sunday, plunging back into the atmosphere aboard their Crew Dragon spacecraft for an on-target splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. With Isaacman and pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet monitoring cockpit displays, flanked by SpaceX
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Polaris Dawn astronaut delivers violin performance from space – CBS News Watch CBS News Astronaut Sarah Gillis, who took part in Polaris Dawn’s historic spacewalk earlier this week, delivered a violin performance from the mission. The performance was synced with an orchestra on Earth. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser
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The two Starliner astronauts said Friday they had no regrets about NASA’s decision to extend their mission and to bring their spacecraft back to Earth without them, saying they had turned the page and were enjoying the transition to full-time space station astronauts. Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, both former Navy
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew attempts first-ever commercial spacewalk – CBS News Watch CBS News A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts performed the first-ever commercial spacewalk Thursday morning. It is the first time a company, not a government space program, has performed a spacewalk. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications
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While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz ferry ship for a six-month tour of duty. Space station veteran Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut at
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Faced with a frustrating stretch of bad wether locally and off shore, SpaceX geared up Monday for another attempt to launch a privately funded mission — Polaris Dawn — aimed at setting a post-Apollo altitude record and staging the first non-government commercial spacewalk. Assuming final clearance to proceed, billionaire commander Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott Poteet
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Leaving its crew behind in orbit, Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Friday and chalked up a successful unpiloted return to Earth, closing out a disappointing test flight with an on-target New Mexico touchdown. Despite NASA’s concerns about earlier thruster problems and multiple helium leaks in the ship’s propulsion pressurization system,
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Boeing’s Starliner returning to Earth without passengers amid safety concerns – CBS News Watch CBS News NASA has decided to fly Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft back from the International Space Station without astronauts due to safety concerns. The spacecraft is expected to land in New Mexico just after midnight, weather permitting, marking another setback in the
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With its problematic mission finally winding down, Boeing’s Starliner capsule was rigged for re-entry and its hatch closed Thursday, setting the stage for undocking and an unpiloted return to Earth overnight Friday in the final chapter of a disappointing test flight. Ninety-two days after launching aboard the Starliner — a mission originally expected to last
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NASA has bumped two female astronauts, including the commander, from the next SpaceX crew rotation flight to the International Space Station, freeing up two seats to give the agency’s Starliner astronauts a ride home next February. Rookie Crew 9 commander Zena Cardman and veteran Stephanie Wilson will remain behind when the Crew Dragon ferry ship
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