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Elon Musk-led SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft set for launch tonight to rescue two astronauts
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T. A. Gardner
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There aren't any yard sales between the launch site and the station so it should be okay.
serendipity
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Still no hoping.
They should send your Scandinavian squeeze Greta Doom Pixie up there.
AProudLefty
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Where's the hoping?
Althea
Althea told me...
serendipity
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Still no hoping.
Biden didn't want to send them back because if they died he would get the blame.
AProudLefty
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Source?
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SpaceX Tries Again to Launch NASA’s Crew-10 Mission to the I.S.S.
Forecasts call for 95 percent chance of favorable weather.
A backup launch opportunity is available on Saturday at 6:41 p.m., but the weather will not be as promising. It will be windy with only a 50 percent chance of favorable conditions.
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Here's hoping for a successful mission!With weather conditions “near perfect” Wednesday, NASA is set to launch four “Crew-10” astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket and rescue two astronauts who have been living in space for months.
The astronauts’ arrival at the orbiting laboratory will clear the way for Crew-9 to return to Earth, including NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams. The pair have been on board since last June.
Lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon spacecraft is slated for 7:48 p.m. EDT from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A NASA stream of the event was already live a little more than three hours beforehand. If all goes well, the crew is expected to dock at the space station by approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The international group on Crew-10 includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov.
“Game Day,” McClain wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
Crew-10 is the tenth crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 11th flight with astronauts.
The space agency said that when the Dragon capsule docks at the station, Crew-9 will familiarize their fellow astronauts with the station’s ongoing science and maintenance work.
“The crew will spend several months aboard the orbiting laboratory conducting spacewalks, research demonstrations and experiments for the benefit of humanity and deep space exploration,” NASA explained.
After a brief handover, and pending good weather, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will head back home. Gorbunov and Hague came to the space station on a mission after Williams and Wilmore arrived.
“I'm looking forward to seeing my classmate, Expedition 59 crewmate, spacewalking partner, and friend [Anne McClain] float through the hatch. Go Crew-10!” wrote Hague.
Williams and Wilmore have spent an extra, and initially unexpected, nine months in zero gravity following issues after their Boeing Crew Flight Test: the first crewed mission of the capsule. The capsule returned to Earth without them last September in an unexpected uncrewed return after technical difficulties. That left Williams and Wilmore in space for longer than intended.
SpaceX aborts launch to send new crew to International Space Station and rescue stranded astronauts
The astronauts’ eventual arrival at the orbiting laboratory will clear the way for the return of NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williamswww.aol.com
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???????? He isn't NASA, Sybil!
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US astronauts stuck on space station because Biden didn’t want to risk rescue before election: ex-NASA spaceman
US astronauts stuck on space station because Biden didn’t want to risk rescue before election: ex-NASA spaceman
The two American astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station for nine months may have been stuck there because of the presidential election, one of their fellow spacemen thinks.
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Stranded astronaut confirms Biden shot down Musk’s offer to bring pair home: ‘Absolutely factual’
Stranded astronaut confirms Biden shot down Musk’s offer to bring pair home: ‘Absolutely factual’
One of the NASA astronauts trapped on the International Space Station said he believes Elon Musk’s claim that the Biden administration rejected his offer to help bring the team home.
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The Dragon: How Elon Musk Won the War for Space
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets into the record books
Published February 16, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has flown straight into the record books after launching and landing a record 26 times.
Booster 1067 launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday, delivering 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. About eight minutes after liftoff, the first-stage booster landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX shared footage of the booster completing the record-setting 26th flight.
The booster previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, O3B mPOWER, PSN SATRIA, Telkomsat Marah Putih 2, Galileo L13, Koreasat-6A, and now 15 Starlink missions. Having landed safely on the droneship, the booster can now be refurbished and flown again.
SpaceX has been consistently pushing the boundaries of rocket reusability, with multiple Falcon 9 boosters now having completed more than 10 flights. The system, refined by SpaceX over the last decade, drastically cuts the cost of spaceflight as it eliminates the need to build a new booster for each mission.
In a more ambitious move, SpaceX is now developing the mighty Starship rocket with a view to reusing both the upper-stage Starship spacecraft and the first-stage Super Heavy booster.
To date, SpaceX has performed seven test flights of the Starship, which is the most powerful rocket ever to fly. Taking what it’s learned from the Falcon 9 system, engineers have designed a similar descent technique to bring home the Super Heavy soon after it’s deployed the Starship to orbit. But whereas the Falcon 9 touches down on a droneship or on the ground, the Super Heavy is secured by two mechanical arms on the launch tower before it touches the ground. It’s a spectacular feat that has to be seen to be believed.
The Starship spacecraft is also designed to land after flight, whether back on Earth or on another celestial body, with SpaceX aiming to test the procedure in an upcoming flight.
NASA and SpaceX are planning to use the Starship for crew and cargo missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, with a modified version of the spacecraft set to transport two NASA astronauts to the lunar surface in the Artemis III mission, currently scheduled for 2027.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets into the record books
A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster performed a record-breaking flight on Saturday, highlighting the company's ability to reuse its rockets multiple times.
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Althea
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What rescue? And who paid for Musk's space toys?