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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Safely Returns to Earth Near Florida Coast

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Monday, September 4, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida early Monday morning, NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 completed the agency's sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station.

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  • WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida early Monday morning, NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 completed the agency's sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station.
  • Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels retrieved the spacecraft and its crew.
  • The contributions of Crew-6 will help prepare NASA to return to the Moon under Artemis, continue onward to Mars, and improve life here on Earth."
  • The Crew-6 mission lifted off at 12:34 a.m. EST March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA to Provide Briefing, Coverage of Spacewalks for Station Upgrades

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Friday, May 26, 2023
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NASA will discuss the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 1.

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  • NASA will discuss the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 1.
  • Live coverage of the news conference and spacewalks will air on NASA Television, the NASA app , and the agency's website .
  • The spacewalks will see the fifth and sixth IROSAs mounted to the existing station solar arrays.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Safely En Route to International Space Station

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Thursday, March 2, 2023
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The international crew are the agency's sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory.

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  • The international crew are the agency's sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory.
  • "Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for another history-making mission to the International Space Station!
  • "Crew-6 will be busy aboard the International Space Station, conducting over 200 experiments that will help us to prepare for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as improve life here on Earth.
  • "For more than two decades, humans have continuously lived and worked aboard the International Space Station," said Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate in Washington.

Two Astronauts Receive Assignments for NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission

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Thursday, December 16, 2021
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NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission.

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  • NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission.
  • The agency's international partners will assign additional crew members as mission specialists in the future.
  • The mission is expected to launch in 2023 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • Bowen, Hoburg, and the international crew members will join an expedition crew aboard the space station.