NASA astronauts who were part of the SpaceX Crew-8 team will discuss their 235-day mission on the International Space Station that ended in hospitalizations.
SpaceX launched what has been a top secret mission just before dusk on Sunday, not releasing the contents of its payload and changing its original mission name.
NASA ultimately chose to return the Boeing spacecraft home empty and moved Starliner’s astronauts onto the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, delaying that mission’s launch and thus Crew-8’s return.
Since launching on March 3 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crew had spent 235 days in space, a new duration record for SpaceX missions. Upon recovery, the three NASA astronauts and ...
NASA announced in August it would cut the roster for SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission—which launched toward the ISS on Sept. 24—so that Williams and Wilmore could return to Earth at the mission’s end. The crew ...