SpaceX, NASA Target Mid-November For Crew-1 Launch

SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts
SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts from left are NASA’s Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Soichi Noguchi.
Credit: Norah Moran/NASA
With just months to spare before U.S. staffing of the International Space Station is threatened, NASA and SpaceX are preparing to fly four astronauts to the orbiting complex, bridging an 11-year gap in crew ferry flights from the U.S. Six-month mission on tap for Crew-1 Blocked vent lines scrub GPS...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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