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NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 Rendezvous & Capture–Monday, April 13, 2026

Loaded with food, fuel, and supplies, the unpiloted Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft arrived the International Space Station April 13 where it was installed to the nadir port of t...

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How does the Space Shuttle use parachutes? Essentially, you'll find three places on the Space Shuttle where we use parachutes. The first one is on the backs of the astronauts. The second on...

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Now on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: In the Works_ NASA lays out its plan to return to flight this July_ Plus: Tank tasks_ A test, and a swap of the Shuttles' fuel tanks are on the horiz...

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Now on NASA's Space Shuttle Status Report: Getting ready to roll: Final work is progressing for Space Shuttle Discovery's roll over to the Vehicle Assembly Building later this month_ Two plus o...

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U.S. ASTRONAUTS DOCK TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ABOARD A U.S. COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT After a 19-hour ride aboard the new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob B...

SpaceX DM-2 Flight Day Highlights - May 31, 2020

After a 19-hour ride aboard the new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley docked to the International Space Station May 31, inaugurating a new era of huma...

NASA Conducts Second RS-25 Engine Test of Year at Stennis Space Center

NASA conducted its second RS-25 engine hot fire test of the new year Feb. 8 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. The test was the third hot fire in the latest test series that bega...

NASA Conducts RS-25 Hot Fire Test at Stennis Space Center

NASA conducted the first test of the new RS-25 restart engine campaign for future flights of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Dec. 14, completing 209.5 seconds of a scheduled full-duration hot ...

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Mission Overview

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will support NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station. The duo will launch aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft at...

Boeing Crew Flight Test Training Resource Reel (1080)

NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are the crewmembers of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. The duo will launch to the International Space Station aboa...

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What if your work required you to creep along at less than one mile an hour, carrying an 18-million-pound load on your back? Well, that's part of Bob Myers' job description. He's one of only nine U...

Boeing Crew Flight Test Training Resource Reel (4K)

NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are the crewmembers of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. The duo will launch to the International Space Station aboa...

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BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: Welcome, Andre. ANDRE'DRESS: Thank you. BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: We have some video that shows the GOES-N spacecraft processing. Can you take us through that process? DRESS: Sure. W...

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I work at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. My job entails being a public affairs information specialist. Public affairs means I'm a public affairs officer and my job involv...

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NEWLY ARRIVED NASA ASTRONAUTS ON SPACE STATION GREETED BY VIPS Within hours after docking to the International Space Station aboard their new SpaceX Crew Dragon craft “Endeavour” May 31, NASA ...

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I'm here with Kathy Winters, launch weather officer. Kathy thanks for joining us. MS. WINTERS: Thanks. MS. STILSON: Kathy, Hurricane Dennis is obviously on everyone's mind. Let's start with some ...

2019 NASA Day in Montgomery

Officials from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, visited Montgomery, Alabama, Thursday, April 18, to spread the word about the importance of the state's role in urgently l...

Expedition 69 Northrop Grumman Cygnus Cargo Craft Arrives at Space Station - Aug. 4, 2022

Loaded with food, fuel, and supplies, the unpiloted Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Aug. 4 where it was installed to the nadir port of the Unity modul...

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Hundreds gathered at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex May 1 to watch as five former Shuttle astronauts were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The astronauts inducted were: Nor...

Expedition 69 Northrop Grumman Cygnus Cargo Craft Secured to Space Station - Aug. 4, 2022

Loaded with food, fuel, and supplies, the unpiloted Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Aug. 4 where it was installed to the nadir port of the Unity modul...

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Hi. My name's Mike Leinbach, I'm the Shuttle launch director at the Kennedy Space Center for NASA. Well, in my role as the launch director, the most visible portion, of course, is on launch day, w...

DM-2 Crew Departs Ellington Field

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In Their Own Words: NASA Astronaut Michael Foale. A veteran of six space flights talks about being an astronaut and living aboard both the International Space Station and Mir.

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I'm Expedition 9 flight engineer and NASA science officer Mike Fincke aboard the International Space Station. When I was 3 years old, I remember watching the first people land on the Moon, and I ...

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In Their Own Words: Astronaut Cady Coleman, a veteran of two space shuttle missions, talks about becoming an astronaut and her training for an upcoming assignment on the International Space Station.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Speaks with Astronauts in Space

Grammy-winning recording artist Eddie Vedder made a special long-distance phone call to the International Space Station (ISS), in celebration of Earth Day. Orbiting more than 250 miles (402 kilome...

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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. This also will be Epps’ first trip to the space station. She is from Syracuse, New York, and earned a bach...

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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick is the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. This will be the first spaceflight for Dominick, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017. He is from Wheat Ridge, Col...

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NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt is the pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. This will be Barratt’s third trip to the space station. In 2009, Barratt served as a flight engineer for Expeditions...

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This week on Down to Earth: Conversations, former NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg explore what it's like to adapt to life on station. _____________________________...