10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
...Boeing and SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). To accommodate this, NASA has expanded the International Space Station Utilization NASA Research Announcement (NRA) to assist U.S. Entities to pursue these missions. The announcement, made...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
..., along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency). The trio departed the International Space Station at 12:50 am EST and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing...
20 March 2020
SpaceX plans first crewed flight to ISS in May
... and SpaceX officially announced on Wednesday that the first crewed launch from the United States to the International Space Station is planned for mid-May. The entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at NASA...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
... mission, noting he was “currently preparing and training” for the flight, which will take him to the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. Meanwhile, NASA announced it has assigned astronaut Shannon Walker to the first operational...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. Once Demo-2 is complete, and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for...
12 October 2016
NASA to move ahead with plans for private ISS modules
... NASA's NextSTEP award this year. Ixion plans to study the conversion of a Centaur upper stage into a commercial International Space Station module. According to the latest statement, NASA hopes that the modules will support long-term crewed...
