STS-61-A in 1985 is the only flight to have launched with a crew of more than seven. Elon Musk offers update on SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket
We’ve got something for you to look forward to on launch day.”Hurley and Behnken are gearing up to launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft’s first mission with astronauts. Her previous business Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and, as a crew member of Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original Ride Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Mercury astronauts, and the first of Ellen O. Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former Director of the Johnson Space Center. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken plan to reveal a name for their Crew Dragon spaceship on the day they launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, reclaiming a tradition that dates back to the dawn of the Space Age.Hurley and Behnken are preparing for launch on a test flight to restore orbital human spaceflight capability to the United States.The crew members have not disclosed the name for their spacecraft yet. [ August 30, 2020 ]
Our astronaut name generator will find the most out of this world names for your fictional astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.
The astronauts said Friday they will announce it on launch day.“We have to save some suspense for the mission itself,” Behnken said during the crew’s final pre-launch press conference.
Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Judith Arlene Resnik (; April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died when the Space Shuttle Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D. (born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) Wednesday from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, weather permitting.The tradition of having NASA astronauts name their spaceships dates back to the Mercury program.The original Mercury astronauts named their capsules before they flew into space. [ September 1, 2020 ] Engineers say the exposure of sensitive spacecraft components to salt water makes reuse more challenging.Hurley, the spacecraft commander on the Crew Dragon test flight, said astronauts training for the first few commercial missions “all think it’s great idea” to assign names to their spacecraft.“We feel honored to continue this tradition,” Hurley said Friday.Russian cosmonauts have also used call signs on space missions, but Russian spacecraft commanders often use the same name on each of their flights.
Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the Apollo Lunar Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. On 30 May 2020, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken broke a nine-year hiatus for Nasa, becoming the first astronauts to launch from US soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.
He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he Eileen Marie Collins (born November 19, 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics.