Four astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX rocket Sunday for a night ride to the International Space Station, although the prospects of good weather were just 50-50 and the company’s leader Elon Musk was sidelined by COVID-19. The astronauts, NASA’s Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, are sitting … Read more
Go for launch! Tom Cruise gets October 2021 date for NASA/SpaceX trip to make movie on board the International Space Station Space Shuttle Almanac tweeted a graph of planned launches to ISS It showed Cruise and director Doug Liman listed as tourists on the October 2021 launch piloted by NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria … Read more
NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX will once again attempt to make history Saturday by launching astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley from US soil to the International Space Station. Spectators from around the world were disappointed Wednesday when the initial launch was scrubbed with just minutes on the countdown due to poor weather conditions. ‘Launch … Read more