NASA
Partner Manager for Sierra Nevada Corporation Cheryl McPhillips
discusses the uniqueness of the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft and
the milestones it will complete during the agency's Commercial Crew
Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative.
A Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan last night safely docked with the International Space Station this morning, delivering ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and his crewmates to the orbital outpost where they will live and work for five months.
Three
new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 28, (2:31 a.m.
Kazakh time,
Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space
Station.
A
Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of
the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Luca
Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Karen Nyberg of NASA,
onboard, launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the
International Space Station.
Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will
remain aboard the station until mid-November, 2013.