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SpaceX's Crew-9 astronaut flight for NASA launches this week. Here's how it turned into a rescue mission

SpaceX's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station on Sept. 26 will be a rescue mission of sorts, bringing up empty seats for two NASA astronauts currently in space without a ride home.

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NASA astronaut joins 2 Russian cosmonauts for Soyuz flight to space station

Don Pettit is replacing astronaut Tracy Dyson, who plans to return to Earth on Sept. 23, after a six-month stay aboard the space station.

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 arrives at KSC to prep for launch, teaming up with Starliner astronauts

Crew-9's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

AOL · 5h

SpaceX launch to retrieve NASA astronauts highlights growing lead over Boeing in commercial space industry

Elon Musk’s firm will be tasked with completing a mission Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft could not: returning two NASA astronauts back to Earth.

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NASA-SpaceX Crew-9 mission to launch ‘without pilot’, Sunita Williams to come home on Dragon: ‘Countdown begins’

The NASA-SpaceX Crew-9 mission has been tasked to bring back Starliner stronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from space. Here's all you need to know about it.

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Watch NASA astronaut, 2 record-breaking cosmonauts head home to Earth on Sept. 23

A NASA astronaut and two record-setting Russian cosmonauts are set to head back to Earth on Monday (Sept. 23), and you can ...

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NASA Prepares for Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Two Cosmonaut Crewmates Return to Earth Sept. 23 Aboard Soyuz

(NASA) – NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from ...

Retired NASA Astronaut Urges Government to Investigate "Compelling" UFO Claims

Squad Up In a new interview, ex-astronaut and current Arizona senator Mark Kelly insisted that the US government could be ...

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Astronaut still plans to vote in 2024 election despite being stranded in space

NASA astronaut and Harris County resident Butch Wilmore said he still plans to vote in the upcoming November election even ...

NASA astronaut and UC Davis alum Tracy C. Dyson speaks with KCRA 3 live from ISS

Tracy C. Dyson is from Arcadia and earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997. The Expedition 71 flight engineer is on the ISS as part of her third mission to space. She previously was a ...

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Veteran NASA astronaut on Russian launch sets off-world record for people in space

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

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Reel Rundown: ‘Apollo 13: Survival,’ although dramatized, a mostly accurate and authentic retelling of astronaut incident

And it was first announced by Lovell’s fellow astronaut Jack Swigert. Hollywood has never met a line that it couldn’t milk ...

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NASA astronaut photographs SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn capsule reentry from ISS (photo)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit caught the conclusion of Polaris Dawn, a private space mission that included the first-ever commercial spacewalk, during its SpaceX Dragon spacecraft's return to Earth before ...