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The "Endeavour" Crew Dragon will undock from the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. It will then reenter the Earth's atmosphere and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
International Space Station
The "Endeavour" Crew Dragon will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet back to Earth after spending six months on the International Space Station.
Gulf of Mexico, southwest of Pensacola, FL, USA
The Crew-3 Crew Dragon will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the International Space Station as crew members of Expedition 66.
International Space Station
SpaceX performed a pre-burner test followed by a static fire of Starship S20.
Boca Chica, Texas
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts will answer media questions about their time aboard the International Space Station during a post-landing news conference.
Johnson Space Center
A partial lunar eclipse will be visible throughout much of the globe where the Moon appears above the horizon during the eclipse, including North and South America, Eastern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Region. North America will have the best location to see the entirety of the eclipse.
The Northrop Grumman NG-16 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere taking waste along with it.
International Space Station
With Flight 16, Ingenuity continues the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field. Flight 16 was a short 107-second hop, taking the helicopter over to "South Séítah" region.
Airfield F, Jezero crater, Mars
NASA will host a media briefing about the upcoming launch of Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
Kennedy Space Center
The Progress MS-17 spacecraft will undock from the Nauka module of the International Space Station. It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
International Space Station
The modified Progress space tug called Progress-M-UM will dock the Prichal node module to the nadir port of the MLM Nauka module on the International Space Station. It will provide four ports to mount additional modules and one docking port for cargo and crew spacecrafts.
International Space Station
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Earth on November 27. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.
Earth
US Vice President Kamala Harris chairs her first National Space Council meeting on Dec. 1, 2021, at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will join the vice president to deliver remarks. The council advises the president on America’s space policy and strategy, and reviews the nation’s long-range goals for space activities.
Institude of Peace, Washington, USA
NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron will venture outside the orbiting outpost to replace the port 1 truss S-Band communications antenna.
International Space Station
Rocket Lab will host a major development update about its upcoming Neutron launch vehicle.
Camera views of the total solar eclipse visible from Antarctica will be broadcasted on NASA TV.
Antarctica
During Flight 17 Ingenuity continued with the return to Wright Brothers Field. The flight took the helicopter halfway across the South Séítah region. When landing, Ingenuity lost communication with the Perseverance rover for a short while, possibly because difficult terrain obstructed the line of sight between the antennas. However, radio link was reestablished around 15 minutes after the landing. Telemetry suggests that Ingenuity is healthy and operational.
Airfield J, Jezero crater, Mars
After evaluating more than 12,000 applications, NASA will introduce its 2021 astronaut candidates from Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After completing training, these individuals could be eligible for a variety of flight assignments including missions on and around the Moon under the Artemis program.
Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, TX, USA
NASA will host a media briefing about the upcoming launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission.
Kennedy Space Center
The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin as well as Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his cameraman Yozo Hirano.
International Space Station