SpaceX launches crew to International Space Station
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Crew-12 is the first spaceflight for Hathaway and Adenot and the second for Meir and Fedyaev. The cosmonaut was a late addition to the crew, coming aboard in early December to replace his countryman Oleg Artemyev, who was allegedly pulled for violating the U.S. law known as ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations).
A spacecraft-maker operating in eastern Kern County has become just the sixth private aerospace company to be invited aboard the International Space Station. Long Beach-based Vast, which tests rocket
Caribou native Jessica Meir is headed back to the International Space Station as a member of NASA's SpaceX crew that launched from Cape Canaveral this morning.
If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces and food.