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    April | 2018

    Falcon 9 Underway for SpaceX CRS-14

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    A Falcon 9 rocket is being loaded with propellants in preparation for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, to boost a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EDT, for its 14th commercial resupply services mission to the space station.

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 is 230 feet-tall and has two-stages topped by the company’s unpiloted Dragon spacecraft. The rocket’s first stage is powered by nine Merlin engines that ignite at T-0. Its second stage has a single Merlin engine that takes over after separation of the first stage. The engines run on a combination of super-cold liquid oxygen and the fuel, RP-1 — highly refined kerosene.

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    February | 2017

    Successful SpaceX Launch & Landing of Falcon 9 + Dragon CRS-10 Mission to the ISS

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    At 9:39:00 am ET on February 19, 2017, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from Launch Complex 39A to deliver nearly 5,500 lbs of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. This marked SpaceX’s first launch from Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad, and the first launch from LC-39A since July 8, 2011 when Atlantis lifted off for the final flight of the Shuttle Program.

     

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    February | 2017

    SpaceX Postpones Launch of Tenth Cargo Mission to the International Space Station

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    The Feb. 18 launch attempt of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed due to a second stage thrust control issue. The rocket was scheduled to launch the company’s Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with almost 5,500 pounds of scientific research and other supplies. Details about a future launch attempt are being evaluated.

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    April | 2016

    NASA Cargo Headed to Space Station Includes Habitat Prototype, Medical Research

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    Tucked in the trunk of the latest commercial cargo spacecraft to head for the International Space Station is an expandable structure that has the potential to revolutionize work and life on the space station.

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    March | 2016

    NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission

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    NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2 Kazakhstan time).

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    May | 2015

    International Space Station Partners Adjust Spacecraft Schedule

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    NASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station.

    The partner agencies agreed to adjust the schedule after hearing the Russian Federal Space Agency’s (Roscosmos) preliminary findings on the recent loss of the Progress 59 cargo craft. The exact dates have not yet been established, but will be announced in the coming weeks. Roscosmos expects to provide an update about the Progress 59 investigation on Friday, May 22.

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    April | 2015

    Russian Resupply Ship Experiencing Difficulties; International Space Station, Crew are Fine

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    The six crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) are safe and continuing regular operations with sufficient supplies as Russian flight controllers plan for another attempt to communicate with a cargo resupply spacecraft bound for the station. The next attempt to link with the spacecraft comes at 8:50 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

    The ISS Progress 59 cargo spacecraft launched successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:09 a.m. (1:09 p.m. in Kazakhstan) Tuesday on a Soyuz rocket bound for the space station. Right after it separated from the Soyuz booster’s third stage, an unspecified problem prevented Russian flight controllers from determining whether navigational antennas had deployed and whether fuel system manifolds had pressurized as planned.

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    September | 2014

    Fourth Dragon for Commercial Resupply Services Arrives at Station

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    The Dragon commercial cargo craft has completed a two day trip to the International Space Station after launching early Sunday morning. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst were at the controls of the robotics workstation in the Cupola when the Canadarm2 grappled Dragon at 6:52 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Dragon will spend the next four weeks attached to the Harmony node as the Expedition 41 trio unloads 4,885 pounds of (2,216 kg) crew supplies, hardware, experiments, computer gear and spacewalk equipment. This is the fourth SpaceX mission for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract, designated SpaceX CRS-4, with eight more missions slated to deliver a minimum of 20 metric tons to the station.

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    September | 2014

    SpaceX Dragon launches to the ISS

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    NASA Television coverage of the September 20 launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft on the company’s CRS-4 mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft’s 2.5 tons of supplies, science experiments, and technology demonstrations includes critical materials to support 255 science and research investigations that will occur onboard the station.

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    August | 2014

    Space Station Crew Discusses Life in Space with California Students (video)

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    During a NASA in-flight educational event on August 27, International Space Station, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman talked about their day-to-day activities with students at the Elliot Ranch Elementary School in Elk Grove, California. Swanson, who launched to the station in late March, will return to Earth on Sept. 10, U.S. time, while Wiseman, who arrived on the station in late May, will remain in orbit until November.

     

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