Tag: Crew-3

NASA, SpaceX Plan Halloween Launch of Crew-3 Flight to Space Station

SPACE reports that the next NASA space station launch, which is set for Halloween, “will put four more astronauts into space on a SpaceX rocket. The Crew-3 launch is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 31 at 2:21 a.m. EDT (0721 GMT), using a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch will take place at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.” The four astronauts on the “SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will be NASA astronauts Raja Chari (mission commander), Tom Marshburn (pilot), and Kayla Barron (mission specialist), as well as European Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist Matthias Maurer.” NASA said in a statement, “Launch on Oct. 31 would have Crew-3 arriving at the space station early on the morning of Monday, Nov. 1, for a short handover with the astronauts who flew to the station in April as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission.”
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SPACE Interviews Crew-3 Astronauts

SPACE interviews the Crew-3 astronauts on their six months aboard the International Space Station. Crew-3 pilot Tom Marshburn said, “Scared would be the wrong word” to describe the Crew-3’s reaction to the November 16 Russian anti-satellite test. Marshburn said that “it was pretty much like we trained. I was like, ‘OK, here’s the way you need to have this procedure.’”
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Four Astronauts Returning from ISS on SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule

CNN reports, “Three NASA astronauts and a European astronaut are returning home from the International Space Station, capping off their six-month mission during which they worked alongside Russian cosmonauts and hosted the first all-private crew to visit the orbiting outpost.” CNN reports the astronauts “climbed aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after midnight and detached from the space station in the early hours of Thursday morning,” and will “spend all day Thursday free flying through orbit as their spacecraft maneuvers closer to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.” The capsule “will streak back into the atmosphere while traveling at more than 22 times the speed of sound” and then “deploy parachutes and float to a splashdown landing off the coast of Florida.”
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