Tag: SpaceX astronauts
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First Native American Woman Astronaut Set to Take Flight
Nicole Aunapu Mann will make history as the first Native American woman in space in fall 2022. If all goes according to plan, she will lead NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 3rd. It will mark Mann’s first spaceflight since she became an astronaut in 2013. In an interview…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Leads America Back Into Space Exploration
The SpaceX mission launched on May 30, 2020, and sent Americans back into the stars independent of other nations for the first time in decades. We watched with bated breath during takeoff. Then we cheered as the two-person crew, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, made it to the International Space Station safely. And we…