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The astronauts will go around the moon next year
Canadian astronaut Chris Hansen has been selected to pilot NASA’s Artemis III mission, which is set to be the first airborne mission by a woman and a person of colour to the Moon in 50 years. Hansen, who will be the test pilot for the flight, had first been selected to be a NASA astronaut…
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After a last-minute problem, the space company heads for another attempt to launch astronauts
SpaceX and NASA on Wednesday launched six astronauts, including a former NASA astronaut, into space to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew Dragon capsule will be detached from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after launch. The crew will join the seven astronauts already aboard the International Space Station after reaching it.
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International astronauts are going to the space station
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who was the first woman to travel to space, will be joined by fellow astronauts Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata of Japan’s space agency JAXA, and Anna Kikina, a Roscomos cosmonaut, in NASA’s upcoming Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. This will be NASA’s third Crew-6 mission to the space station.
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Russia is planning to take stranded space station crew members home
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has decided to delay the launch of a spacecraft meant to replace one that was not safe enough to transport astronauts. Roscosmos was aiming to launch the MS-23 replacement capsule this month and return cosmonauts Alexey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio home. The planned rescue mission was…
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Jim McDivitt led Apollo missions and died at the age of 93.
Apollo 9 mission, commanded by astronaut Steve McDivitt in 1969, was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It was a 10-day mission which involved testing the lunar landing craft. In 1969, NASA successfully landed humans on the Moon four months later in July 1969. McDivitt had commanded Apollo 9 in 1969, which…