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Look! Up in the sky! Here are some upcoming event dates involving human beings in outer space. This is our future, not social media or cable news.

Targeted Date: September 29, 2020

Mission: Northrop Grumman Cargo Resupply Mission

Description: Northrop Grumman will launch its 14th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station on Sept. 29. 2020.

Date: October 14, 2020

Mission: Expedition 64 Launch

Description: NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. This will be the second spaceflight for Rubins.

Date: October 22, 2020

Mission: Expedition 63 Landing

Description: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian space agency Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner return to Earth aboard their Soyuz spacecraft, landing in Kazakhstan.

No Earlier Than: October 23, 2020

Mission: SpaceX Crew-1 Mission to the International Space Station

Description: Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Shannon Walker of NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission specialist Soichi Noguchi will launch on the Crew-1 mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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