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With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back: "We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11."


“We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11.”…

Cardman and her crewmates rode a Falcon 9 rocket off the launch pad and headed northeast over the Atlantic Ocean, lining up with the space station's orbit to set the stage for an automated docking at the complex early Saturday. "We're working with the Cape and with the Kennedy Space Center folks to figure out the right time to make that transition from Landing Zone 2 in the future," said Bill Gerstenmaier, SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability. For officials in charge of the International Space Station, this means planning for fewer astronauts, reductions in research output, and longer-duration missions to minimize the number of crew rotation flights NASA must pay for.

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