The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.
The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.
A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the universe came to look like it does today.
From left, the astronauts Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman of NASA and Kimiya Yui of JAXA, the Japanese space agency, inside a Crew Dragon capsule just after splashing down.
Four astronauts departed from the I.S.S. about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.
The International Space Station crew members in their Crew Dragon pressure suits on Jan. 9. Clockwise from bottom left: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.
After canceling a spacewalk planned for Thursday, the space agency’s administrator said it was erring on the side of caution and bringing a crew of four home in the coming days.
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