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Crew-8 was the eighth SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. [8] The mission launched at 3:53:38 UTC on 4 March 2024 (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST, local time at the launch site). [9] SpaceX sent the 50th astronaut on this Crew Dragon launch. [10]
SpaceX and NASA on Sunday successfully launched their joint Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, brought NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, ... landing softly at sea around 3:30 a.m. ET off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
English: The official insignia of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Dragon Crew-8, composed of NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Grebenkin, is ready to stand the watch on its mission to maintain a continuous human research presence in low-Earth orbit represented by the never-ending path of a Latin numeral 8 with the dragon bowing ...
The site was renamed Landing Zone prior to its first use as a landing site. [8] [9] Elon Musk indicated in January 2016 that he thought the likelihood of successful landings for all of the attempted landings in 2016 would be approximately 70 percent, hopefully rising to 90 percent in 2017, and cautioned that the company expects a few more ...
Seven Expedition 72 crew members — a normal crew size — remain on the orbiting laboratory after Endeavour’s Wednesday departure. Dragon undocked from the space station at 5:05 p.m. on Wednesday.
The takeoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center was historic for a couple of reasons: it’s the first time NASA astronauts have launched on a rocket from a single private company. Hurley and ...
SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 15th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Originally scheduled to launch a crew of four to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-August 2024, the mission was delayed by more than a month due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner Calypso spacecraft that was docked at the ISS for the ...