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Commercial Crew Teams Practice Triage and Medical Evacuation
NASA and the Department of Defense Human Space Flight Support (HSFS) Office have a long history in preparing for human spaceflight missions. As NASA’s Commercial Crew Program prepares to begin...
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Commercial Crew: 2018 Year in Review
NASA and our partners have been busy this year manufacturing flight hardware, testing their systems and preparing for flight tests. Our nine U.S. crew members have also participated in spacecraft...
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Launch Teams Simulate Boeing Uncrewed Flight Test Countdown
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke monitors Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT) launch simulation. Fincke is assigned to Boeing’s Crew Flight Test, the first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner...
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Demo-1 Flight Readiness Review Begins
NASA and SpaceX are holding a flight readiness review today at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX will launch its first uncrewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon...
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Teams Working Through Demo-1 Reviews
Nine engines of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roar to life in a brief static firing on Jan. 24, 2019. The test took place at historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX,...
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Demo-1 Flight Readiness Concludes
Following a full day of briefings and discussion, NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with plans to conduct the first uncrewed test flight of the Crew Dragon on a mission to the International Space Station....
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Weather Prediction: 80 Percent ‘Go’ for Saturday Launch
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon at Launch Complex 39A SpaceX is set to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, the first launch of a space system designed for humans built and operated by a...
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SpaceX Demo-1: Reviews provide GO for launch
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft rolled out to Launch Complex 39A and went vertical for a dry run to prep for the upcoming Demo-1 flight test. Photo credit: SpaceX Additional...
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Crew Safety A Top Priority
NASA and the Department of Defense Human Space Flight Support (HSFS) Office Rescue Division conducted a crew rescue training event April 25 and 27, 2019, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape...
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SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Walkthrough Launch Day Operations
SpaceX recently held a training event at its facility in Hawthorne, California for prelaunch operations with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and ground operators for the company’s Demo-2...
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