Category: crew

Crew Member Found Dead After Danish, British Boats Collide in Baltic

STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN—One of two Danish crew members missing from a capsized barge has been found dead in the hull after an overnight collision on Monday with a British cargo vessel in a busy Baltic Sea route off Sweden. The 55-metre Karin Hoj barge and 90-metre Scot Carrier were sailing in the same direction off the island…


2 Crew Missing After Danish and British Boats Collide in Icy Baltic

STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN—Two Danish crew members of a capsized barge were missing in the freezing Baltic Sea on Monday after an overnight collision with a British vessel in a busy maritime route off Sweden. With the pair unlikely to survive long in water temperatures around 4 Celsius, rescue boats and a helicopter hunted for hours. There was…


NASA, SpaceX Set to Launch Space Station’s Next Crew to Orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Elon Musk’s private rocket company, SpaceX, was due to launch four more astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA’s forthcoming lunar missions. The SpaceX-built launch vehicle, consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9…


How It Happened: Inside Movie Set Where Baldwin’s Gun Fired

SANTA FE, N.M.—Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground of the northern New Mexico foothills stretched for miles—a picturesque setting for an Old West gun battle. The actor Alec Baldwin, haggard in…


Old SpaceX Capsule Delivers New Crew to Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A recycled SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, the third high-flying taxi ride in less than a year for Elon Musk’s company. The Dragon capsule docked autonomously with the orbiting outpost more than 260 miles above the Indian Ocean, a day after launching from NASA’s Kennedy…


Biggest Space Station Crowd in Decade After SpaceX Arrival

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The International Space Station’s population swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX’s third crew capsule in less than a year. It’s the biggest crowd up there in more than a decade. All of the astronauts—representing the U.S., Russia, Japan and France—managed to squeeze into camera view for a congratulatory…