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The overlap after Crew-9 arrived was slightly longer than usual to allow time to reconfigure Crew-8 and Crew-9 as the Starliner astronauts moved to Crew-9. The return of Crew-8 was delayed for several additional weeks due to poor weather conditions in the splashdown zones surrounding Florida caused by Hurricane Milton and several other storms. [20]
The astronauts’ return was delayed by Hurricane Milton and issues with the Boeing Starliner capsule. ... Nasa said that Crew-8 had orbited the Earth 3,776 times, traveling more than 100 million ...
The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission returned to Earth Friday morning, following months of delays.
SpaceX Crew-8 mission had a safe splashdown and recovery after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, at 3:29 a.m. local time — the space agency’s eighth commercial crew ...
After the space shuttles retired, NASA hired private companies for astronaut rides to the space station, paying Boeing and SpaceX billions of dollars. This was the Boeing's first test flight with a crew aboard. The initial demo in 2019, flying empty, never made it to the space station because of bad software, and Boeing repeated the test in 2022.
Crew-8: 4 March 2024, 3:53:38 25 October 2024, 07:29:02 235 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes Longest Crew Dragon mission to date. Ferried four Expedition 70/71/72 crew members to the ISS. ISS stay extended and two makeshift seats added to allow spacecraft to serve as "lifeboat" for Boeing CFT crew if needed. [32]
A NASA astronaut who experienced a "medical issue" following the successful Space X Crew-8 mission has been released from the hospital, NASA officials said Saturday. NASA has not publicly named ...
The Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) is the second phase of the CPC and included the final development, testing and verifications to allow crewed demonstration flights to the ISS. [52] [53] NASA issued the draft CCtCap contract's Request For Proposals (RFP) on July 19, 2013, with a response date of August 15, 2013. [53]