Kirk Shireman, NASA’s manager of the International Space Station Program, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of flight reliability, hold the post-launch press conference from Kennedy Space Center on April 8.
Mission Reports
Live coverage: Space station crew home after 115-day mission
Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, Japanese flight engineer Takuya Onishi and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins departed the International Space Station on Saturday and headed for a homecoming in Kazakhstan to wrap up a 115-day expedition in orbit. Undocking occurred at 8:35 p.m. EDT Saturday (0035 GMT Sunday), with an on-target landing more than three hours later at 11:58 p.m. EDT (0358 GMT).
Falcon 9
Argentine team returns to Florida to prep radar satellite for late July launch
A team of 18 Argentine engineers is quarantining in Florida this week after arriving from Buenos Aires, observing coronavirus health restrictions before beginning operations at Cape Canaveral next week to ready Argentina’s second radar Earth observation satellite for liftoff as soon as July 25 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
