Tag Archives: Astronauts

Crew Dragon with four astronauts on board leaves for ISS — NASA

spacecraft Crew Dragon

The US company SpaceX on Wednesday launched a carrier rocket with the spacecraft Crew Dragon, which will deliver a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The event’s video is streamed on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

After years of relying on Roscomos to deliver its astronauts to space, Washington now plans sanctions on Russian space agency

Russian space agency

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos may be hit with US sanctions for the first time ever, as a draft document reveals the Russian Ministry of Defense might become the subject of economic penalties from Washington. As well as Roscosmos, the proposed sanctions would also target Rosatom, the federal nuclear energy agency, as one of 28 organizations […]

Astronauts excited about Resilience launch to ISS after ‘tough year’

Resilience launch to ISS

After weeks of delay, four astronauts are getting ready to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on the first fully operational mission for a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The combined project between NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX will see the astronauts transported on the spacecraft, named Resilience, aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International […]