Watch NASA Announce the Return of Human Spaceflight to the U.S. Live at 4PM EDT

NASA is all set to announce the return of human spaceflight to the United States today at 4PM EDT. For years, they’ve relied on Russian spacecraft to bring astronauts to and from the ISS, but that relationship has grown strained (and expensive), so they’re about to reveal the details of how the U.S. will restart operations to bring astronauts to outer space in 2017.

Here’s their trailer that will get you all pumped up about shooting brilliant space scientists into orbit:

(via Laughing Squid, image via NASA)

Previously in space

• Russia said NASA could go fu—er, use a trampoline to get to space
• A senate panel thinks we could come up with a better solution, though
• Congress was starting to get concerned about NASA over Russian trampoline talk

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