ISS, NASA and Crew-13
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A joint NASA and SpaceX mission will send four more astronauts to the International Space Station this week. Everything to know about Crew-13.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, burning bright, broke through grey, dreary skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Oct. 1. The launch of the rocket—capped with the reusable Crew Dragon Grace, which contained two Americans,
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SpaceX Crew-13 Launches; Boeing Starliner's Grounding Leaves Dragon as Only U.S. Path to ISS
SpaceX Crew-13 launched October 1, carrying four astronauts to the ISS on Dragon Grace. With Boeing Starliner grounded after a 2024 Type A mishap, SpaceX is now NASA's sole crew taxi through station retirement around 2030.
Six months have elapsed since astronauts have reached space after a rocket launch from the US. That's due to change with a mission known as Crew-13.
In April 2024, the space agency explicitly laid out its philosophy: “NASA supports a robust commercial space economy that advances American industry and promotes technological discovery through in-space work and research. NASA remains committed to fostering innovation and collaboration within the American space industry.”
Russian engineers have a “really, really good idea” about what went wrong during a Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Oct. 11, forcing the ship’s two-man crew to carry out an emergency abort, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Tuesday.
NASA announced that the Crew-13 mission, the first launch with astronauts from the US since Artemis II in April, has been delayed. Here's why.
Progress MS-35 launches September 9, 2026 from Baikonur on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket, carrying 2,600 kg of supplies to the seven-member Expedition 75 crew aboard the ISS, and marking the last Progress cargo flight on this rocket variant before MS-36 transitions to the more capable Soyuz-2.
NASA utilized an HP-65 calculator as a crucial backup system during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. This programmable device carried essential guidance equations in case the main computer failed. The Apollo-Soyuz mission marked the first joint spaceflight between American and Soviet crews.