Tag: Crew-1
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Crew Dragon brings four astronauts back to nighttime splashdown
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION (Left to right) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi, prior to disembarking the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule after splashdown. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Four astronauts strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to a fiery pre-dawn splashdown…
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Live coverage: Four astronauts return home after 167 days in space
Live coverage of the undocking, re-entry and splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SFN LIVE”] [tabbyending] EDITOR’S NOTE: NASA TV’s live coverage of hatch closure, undocking, and splashdown begins at 6 p.m.…
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Crew Dragon return postponed again by poor weather
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) with new undocking and splashdown times. NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, pilot Victor Glover, Crew-1 commander Mike Hopkins, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA/Thomas Pesquet The departure and return to Earth of a four-person space station crew on a SpaceX Dragon capsule…
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Return of SpaceX crew capsule delayed by high winds
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft during a port relocation maneuver outside the International Space Station on April 5. Credit: NASA High winds predicted off the coast of Florida this week will keep SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft and its four-person crew in orbit until Saturday, three days after their previously scheduled return to Earth from…
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Live coverage: SpaceX crew capsule moves to new space station docking port
Live coverage of the relocation of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft to a new docking port outside the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Editor’s Note: NASA TV’s live video coverage of the Crew Dragon relocation maneuver begins at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT) Monday.
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule swaps docking ports on space station
The Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft closes in for docking Monday at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now In the home stretch of nearly a half-year on the International Space Station, four astronauts suited up and rode their SpaceX-owned Crew Dragon “Resilience” spaceship to a new docking port outside the orbiting research lab Monday,…
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Station astronauts prep for relocation of SpaceX crew capsule
Astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi put on their SpaceX pressure suits for a fit check last week in preparation for relocation of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/JAXA Commander Mike Hopkins and his three crewmates will board their Crew Dragon “Resilience” capsule Monday for…
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Busy month of crew rotations on tap at International Space Station
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet, Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough, and Akihiko Hoshide are. preparing for launch April 22 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX Seven astronauts and cosmonauts are gearing up for launches April 9 and April 22 to the International Space Station, replacing seven outgoing crew members set to land in Kazakhstan and off…
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Spacewalkers vent coolant lines and mate cables outside space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared this photo of astronaut Victor Glover on a spacewalk Saturday, with this caption: “FLY NAVY! IKE@AstroVicGloversoars over US LAB module.” Credit: Soichi Noguchi/JAXA/NASA Struggling with balky electrical connectors, spacewalker Mike Hopkins managed to plug in and secure three of four thick power and data…
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Astronauts complete spacewalk to prep for station power system upgrades
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Sunday for the first in a series of spacewalks to upgrade the lab’s aging solar power system, assembling a support fixture that eventually will hold a new solar…