A new era in human space flight is upon us. In the coming days, NASA, with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon, will launch two Americans from US soil for the first time in almost ten years since the Space Shuttle’s retirement. Today I present you with this infographic showing how they will send a crewed spacecraft to the International Space Station and returning them safely home. My plan is to update the information in the infographic as the mission progresses to its conclusion then present a final commemorative historic infographic portrayal of the Demo-2 Mission. To download a large free printable version, go to my website http://www.tonybela.com/

Godspeed gentlemen, you are good to go. Cheers, Tony.

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We’re counting down to the launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with two NASA Astronauts on board. This week:

🏠 How to participate at home in #LaunchAmerica 🇺🇸 Vice President Pence on human spaceflight’s return to the US

🌌 Naming the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for our first chief astronomer.

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have flown into the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for their historic mission next week.

The pair’s trip to the International Space Station (ISS) will be made in a rocket and capsule system provided by a commercial company, SpaceX.

NASA has traditionally always owned and operated its space vehicles.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX’s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons.

Together, they will end a nine-year drought for NASA when they blast into orbit next week from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.

Retired Marine Col. Doug Hurley will be in charge of launch and landing, a fitting assignment for the pilot of NASA’s last space shuttle flight.

Video shows four American heavy lift rockets as if they were transparent.

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Launch to orbit in real time Fuel Burn and Staging of the Saturn V.
Space Shuttle, Falcon Heavy and the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets Launching from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.

Red = kerosene RP-1 orange = liquid hydrogen LH2 blue = liquid oxygen LOX

Are you willing to isolate yourself in the name of science? It should simulate future missions to the Moon and Mars.

Two astronauts will lift off from Florida on Wednesday — the first time in nine years that humans have left Earth from US territory.

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A review panel finds no technical reason to delay the first US orbital crew launch in nine years.