BBC News reports Astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir ventured out to install a mounting hardware for the future addition of solar arrays to the space station. “The spacewalk lasted 6.5 hours.”
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FAA Reviewing Boom’s Request to Conduct Supersonic Test Flights Using XB-1 Demonstrator
FlightGlobal reports the FAA released an environmental assessment addressing the possible impacts of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator, which describes the company’s flight tests as having minimal environmental impact.
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NASA, Roscosmos to Conduct Integrated Crewed Flights to ISS
ExecutiveGov reports that NASA and Roscosmos “have agreed to perform integrated crewed flights to the International Space Station.” The first integrated crewed flight to the ISS “will occur in September and NASA said U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio will join two cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, who will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.” Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, “along with two U.S. astronauts and a Japanese astronaut, will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule.”
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