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The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew donned their spacesuits July 31 and boarded Orion to train and experience some of the conditions they can expect on their mission. NASA …

The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim at the massive orbiting research complex for a planned stay of six to eight months. Spacecraft commander Zena Cardman leads the mission, designated Crew-11, that lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast at 11:43 am EDT …

SpaceX launched its eleventh operational astronaut mission for NASA today (Aug. 1), sending the four Crew-11 astronauts on a flight toward the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT) today. Atop the rocket was the company’s Crew Dragon Endeavour …

article A crew member on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise liner, has died after going overboard near San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. The ship docked at the Port of Miami on Jan. 11, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sent A crew member on the world’s largest cruise liner has died after going overboard on …

SpaceX just took a big step toward its next astronaut launch. The company announced Thursday (July 24) that it has moved its Crew Dragon capsule “Endeavour” to the hangar at historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour is scheduled to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39A — the liftoff site of most Apollo …

As part of the Expedition 73 crew began preparing for their return to Earth, science research and maintenance activities continued this week aboard the International Space Station (ISS). So did outreach efforts, as the outpost’s residents spoke to audiences in Las Vegas and South Korea. Orbital observation On Thursday (July 24), NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a flight engineer on the …

2 Crew Members Are Hurt as Southwest Plane Plunges Abruptly After Takeoff  The New York Times Southwest flight abruptly descends to avoid ‘mid-air collision’ with another plane near Burbank airport  ABC7 Los Angeles Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants  BBC Terrified passengers ‘flew out of their seats’ during dramatic Southwest nosedive to avoid mid-air crash  Fox News Southwest Airlines jet dives as a fighter …

Minutes after takeoff Friday, a Southwest flight leaving Burbank, California, descended after two onboard alerts, injuring two flight attendants and frightening passengers, the airline and people on board said. Southwest did not provide additional details about the alerts. A source familiar with the situation said there was a traffic alert and collision avoidance system alert and invovled a Hawker Hunter …

A Royal Caribbean crew member jumped overboard to his death on Thursday night after stabbing another crew member on the cruise, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The crew member, a 35-year-old South African man, allegedly stabbed a 28-year-old South African woman multiple times onboard the Icon of the Seas cruise ship shortly before 7:30 p.m., police said in …

The crew of a B-52H Stratofortress that had a near-miss with a civilian airliner near Minot International Airport last Friday told air traffic control they were nearby, but were not informed a passenger jet was in the area, the Air Force said. The passenger jet, flight 3788 from SkyWest Airlines, was on approach to land at the Minot airport the …