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The International Space Station backdropped against colourful Earth, taken by Shuttle Discovery during STS-121. ✨
Yesterday Expedition 61 landed safely back on Earth.
Falcon 9 sunset, carrying 60 Starlink Satellites.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter berthed to the International Space Station, backdropped by Earth and the station’s solar arrays. ✨
Dragon Endeavour DM-2 Launch Highlight.
Yesterday NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken & Doug Hurley were 16 minutes away from launching on Crew Dragon. ⛈
Second attempt will be this Saturday 30th May @ 20:22 BST.
The Flight Readiness Review has concluded! NASA’s SpaceX Crew Dragon mission is cleared to proceed toward liftoff.
Tune in to NASA TV for live coverage from 17:15 BST, 27th May.
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Crew Dragon & Falcon 9 Rollout at Launch Complex 39A.
Crew Dragon & Falcon 9 in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A.
SpaceShipTwo Unity at the Gateway to Space, New Mexico.
Shuttle Endeavour docked at the ISS during STS-134. Photo taken from Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, 23 May 2011. ✨
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NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir & Andrew Morgan & Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka are set to return to Earth tomorrow.
Landing aboard their MS-15 spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 0600 BST.
International Space Station backdropped by the Earth.
Photograph taken aboard Shuttle Endeavour during post-undocking relative separation. STS-130, Feb 2010. ✨
Soyuz MS-16 Expedition 62 Crew Launch & Docking. ✨
Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft carrying NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy & Roscosmos Cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin & Ivan Vagner safely rendezvoused & docked with the ISS.
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Concept of the SpaceX Dragon XL Cargo Soacecraft.
To be used to deliver supplies to the Gateway Space Station in Lunar Orbit.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) rendezvousing & docking with the Intelsat-901 communications satellite, 25 Feb 2020.
Incredible footage of the Falcon 9 booster landing on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You”.
Shuttle Discovery flies near the ISS ‘posing’ for a series of inspection photos.
STS-121 - July 2006. ✨
