NASA LAUNCH SCHEDULE

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Date: October 11, 2018
Mission: Expedition 57 Launch
Description: Astronaut Nick Hague of NASA and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will launch to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Date: October 26, 2018
Launch Window: 4:00 a.m. — 5:30 a.m. Eastern
Mission: ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer)
Description: The Ionospheric Connection Explorer will study the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where Earth weather and space weather meet. ICON will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket.
Date: November 15, 2018 – 4:49 a.m. Eastern
Mission: Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission to Space Station (CRS-10)
Description: Northrop Grumman’s tenth contracted commercial resupply services mission, launching aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will deliver several tons of cargo including crew supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station.
Date: November 26, 2018
Mission: InSight Landing on Mars
Description: The Entry, Descent and Landing phase is the final plunge of the Mars InSight Lander through the Martian atmosphere. It lasts about six minutes and delivers the lander safely to the surface of the Red Planet.
Date: December 13, 2018
Mission: Expedition 57 Landing
Description: Astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station and land in Kazakhstan.
Date: December 20, 2018
Mission: Expedition 58 Launch
Description: NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos launch to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Targeted Date: January
Mission: Commercial Crew SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 (Uncrewed)
Description: NASA and industry partners are targeting the return of human spaceflight from Florida’s Space Coast. These flight tests will prove the space systems meet NASA’s requirements for certification to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. For this uncrewed flight test, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
Targeted Date: March
Mission: Commercial Crew Boeing Orbital Flight Test (Uncrewed)
Description: NASA and industry partners are targeting the return of human spaceflight from Florida’s Space Coast. These flight tests will prove the space systems meet NASA’s requirements for certification to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. For this uncrewed flight test, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Targeted Date: June
Mission: Commercial Crew SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (Crewed)
Description: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are training to fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission, with a planning date of June 2019.
Targeted Date: August
Mission: Commercial Crew Boeing Crew Flight Test (Crewed): Mid 2019
Description: NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson are slated for Boeing’s Crew Flight Test targeted for August 2019.

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