The Crew-9 mission, consisting of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, is set to return to Earth after a brief handover period with the newly arrived Crew-10 expedition crew, pending weather conditions at the splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.
Two NASA astronauts who have been in space for more than nine months awaiting a return trip to Earth are finally set to come home. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who have been aboard the International Space Station since last June last year — are due to undock with the SpaceX Crew-9 on March 16,
NASA received the upper stage for the agency's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Mar. 4 supplied by Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, it arrived at the Multi Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The "stuck" Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth March 16 after their relief crew arrives, NASA says.
Two NASA astronauts who embarked on what was supposed to be a brief 10-day mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are now set to return home after an unexpected nine-month stay in space. [...]
NASA's newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International manufacturing