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The call sign of the International Space Station was Alpha, now Station. When different space missions and different control centers work together in joint operations, for example when a Dragon capsule docks to the ISS, NASA connects all communication channels using what is known as the Big Loop. [10]
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
"I'm going to read a children's book I wrote, 'Kisses from Space,' to both my kids as well as some of the brave kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital," she told People. The live feed ...
For SpaceX crewed flights, the Crew Operations and Resource Engineer (CORE) replaces CAPCOM, and acts as the relay between ground controllers at MCC-X at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne and the crew in space. The CORE, who uses the radio call-sign SpaceX is a SpaceX employee, typically from the ranks of the engineers at SpaceX who participate ...
Two aborted missions did cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space. These were the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission MS-10 which did not reach the Kármán line but did pass the 80 km (50 mi) line. The other was the non-fatal Soyuz mission, 18a which crossed the Kármán line. Four missions successfully achieved human ...
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two months later [4]).
The high voltage pulses would travel along the spacecraft's exterior cables and end the mission. Too late to cancel the mission or divert the probes there was no time to go through “normal ...