While many cultures celebrated their respective holiday traditions on Earth, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) carried on with their busy schedules high above. December 2021 saw three major visiting vehicle movements, one spacewalk, and many of the research and maintenance tasks that allow the ISS to function as one of the world’s most important scientific laboratories.
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Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the…
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NASA and SpaceX launched the Commercial Resupply Services 24 (CRS-24) mission to the International Space…
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NASA and SpaceX teams has completed the safe return of the Crew-2 mission from the…
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Following a launch in late August and a month-long stay in orbit, SpaceX and NASA…
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Inspiration4 and all-civilian crew return to Earth with splashdown off Florida coast
The Inspiration4 mission, flown by Crew Dragon Resilience, has concluded its three-day mission with a…
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SpaceX has successfully launched the first-ever all-private orbital mission, Inspiration4. The first-of-its-kind flight saw four…
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SpaceX and NASA conducted a Sunday’s launch of the CRS-23 (Commercial Resupply Services 23) mission…
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Dragon Endeavour performs port relocation to clear way for Starliner
by Pete HardingThe SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour vehicle has swapped docking ports aboard the International Space Station…
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The SpaceX CRS-22 mission has come to a close, with Cargo Dragon having departed the…
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Off the Earth, for the Earth; Endeavour lifts off with international crew for six month mission
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour began its second mission Friday with a crew of four astronauts…
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With launch now just a few weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations…
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After a 27.5 hour commute, Resilience and its crew successfully docked to the International Space…
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With Crew-1 just weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations for the first…
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Before the Demo-2 mission, only one American crew vehicle had ever carried astronauts to the…
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On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first astronauts to launch…
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A sentence I have waited almost nine years to write: A flight crew has arrived…
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For the final time, a Dragon 1 spacecraft has returned to Earth on Tuesday. The…
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Dragon XL revealed as NASA ties SpaceX to Lunar Gateway supply contract
by Chris BerginNASA has awarded SpaceX with a resupply contract for the Lunar Gateway. Built on the…
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Following its ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, the company’s CRS-20 Dragon…