Heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend, weather forecasters are keeping a close watch on Hurricane Dorian. A member of the Expedition 60 crew aboard the International Space Station took this photograph on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Dorian was passing the Dominican Republic, seen in the foreground.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program now is underway with the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon for a mission to the International Space station. The Falcon 9’s eight Merlin engines ignited at 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, 2019.
The first elements of the International Space Station now have been in orbit for more than 20 years. Assembly of the largest spacecraft ever built was a global, cooperative effort and began with the STS-88 space shuttle mission in December 1998.