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  • Amazing Visuals As SpaceX Launches Mission to Help Rescue Astronauts -With One Ugly Media Reaction

    03/15/2025 9:03:46 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 78 replies
    RedState ^ | March 15, 2025 | Nick Arama
    On Friday, SpaceX's Crew-10 mission launched to help bring back the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station. Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to just be at the ISS for eight days, but they've been stuck there since June 2024. A SpaceX Dragon capsule, riding atop one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets, is carrying the four Crew-10 astronauts - NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov - to orbit.They are going to replace SpaceX's Crew-9, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut...
  • VIDEO: Blue Danube Docking of SpaceX Crew Dragon With Space Station

    05/31/2020 12:51:07 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 31 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 31, 2020 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO There was very much of a "2001: A Space Odyssey" vibe when the SpaceX Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Therefore it just had to be done. Setting that docking event to the tune of the Blue Danube. Welcome to "2020: A Space Odyssey." No Stanley Kubricks were harmed in the making of this video.
  • Remarks by President Trump at Kennedy Space Center

    05/31/2020 9:37:59 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | May 30, 2020 | President Donald J Trump
    Kennedy Space CenterCape Canaveral, Florida 5:16 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  Please.  Please.  Big day.  This is a big day.  And I want to thank our great Vice President for your fearless and tireless commitment to fulfilling America’s destiny in space.  Thank you very much, Mike.  Great job.  Great job.  (Applause.) We’re also grateful to Mike’s wonderful wife, Karen, for being here and for all she does for our country.  Thank you.  Thank you, Karen.  (Applause.)Before going further on this exciting day for all America in space, I want to say a few words about...
  • SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down with NASA’s Station Science Cargo

    08/27/2016 7:18:42 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 6 replies
    universe today ^ | 26 Aug , 2016 | Ken Kremer
    A SpaceX commercial Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth today, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, by splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean – thus concluding more than a month long stay at the International Space Station (ISS). The vessel was jam packed with some 1.5 tons of NASA cargo and critical science samples for eagerly waiting researchers. The parachute assisted splashdown of the Dragon CRS-9 cargo freighter took place at 11:47 a.m. EDT today in the Pacific Ocean – located some 326 miles (520 kilometers) southwest of Baja California. Dragon departed after spending more than five weeks berthed at the...
  • Coverage of the Launch of the SpaceX/Dragon (Launch scheduled at 10:21 a.m. ET) 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    06/28/2015 5:30:56 AM PDT · by lbryce · 110 replies
    Coverage begins at 9 am for the 10:21 am launch.