Fram2 is set to launch as early as March 31, sending four first-time astronauts into an orbit never before visited by humans.

McClain and Onishi will be visiting the space station for the second time, while Ayers and Peskov are on their first spaceflight. All four astronauts share a common background as pilots.

astronaut Anne McClain and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi leave the Operations and Checkout building before heading to Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – The highly anticipated launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft, part of NASA’s mission to help bring astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair’s return after nine long ...

JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi leaves the Operations and Checkout building before heading to Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a mission to the International ...

(Gray News) - Two days after a scrubbed launch, a replacement space station crew was cleared for blastoff Friday. The crew’s mission is to help get stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita ...

The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair’s return after nine long months. Butch Wilmore and ...