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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps gets another assignment to the space station after canceled trip – The Verge

NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to a new mission to the International Space Station, flying on Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner capsule. The assignment comes two years after NASA unexpectedly pulled her from what was to be a ground-breaking mission to…

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Epps is getting a new ride to space with Boeing
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
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Two years after being unexpectedly pulled from a flight to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is now assigned to a new mission to the ISS. Rather than flying on the Russian Soyuz rocket as first planned, Epps will join the first operational crew of Boeings CST-100 Starliner, a new private capsule developed to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the station.
Epps was originally su…

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