STP63 - Crew-2 Arrive Home, But What Exactly Did They Do?

Written By Dave Giles

As the Crew-2 mission arrived home on Monday 8th November, we thought we'd have a little look back at what they've achieved during their mission.

Space Center Houston’s Drone Shot of Saturn V:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWCMJAmhGpZ/

Emily’s Blog:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/finding-my-space-how-one-spaceflight-writer-sobered-up-6fe6a6706133

Crew-2 Launch April 23rd 2021:

This Week’s Launches:
Wed 3 Nov 2021: China: CASC: Long March 2C/YZ-1S: Yaogan-32-02
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6834

Fri 5 Nov 2021: China: CASC: Long March 6: SDGSAT-1
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6853

Sat 6 Nov 2021: China: CASC: Long March 2D: Yaogan 35 A/B/C
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6854

Tue 9 Nov 2021: Japan: JAXA: Epsilon PBS: RAISE-2 & Others
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/462

Thur 11 Nov 2021: USA: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Crew-3
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4738

This Week’s Other News:

Blue Origin Loses Federal Lawsuit Over NASA Moon Lander Contract:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-loses-lawsuit-nasa-moon-lander

NASA Picks Landing Site at the Moon’s South Pole for Ice-Drilling Robot:
https://www.space.com/nasa-intuitive-machines-moon-landing-site-ice-mission

Hubble Telescope Team Gets One Science Instrument Running Again:
https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-acs-instrument-recovers-glitch

NASA Says a Glitchy Strap Could Be Behind Lucy Asteroid Probe’s Solar Array Troubles:
https://www.space.com/lucy-spacecraft-solar-array-lanyard-glitch

China’s Shenshou 13 Crew Takes It’s First Spacewalk:
https://www.space.com/china-shenzhou-13-first-female-spacewalk

Ingenuity’s 15th Flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-15th-flight

Image Credits: NASA


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A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is hosted by the National Space Society.

In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

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Dave Giles

Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

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