01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
... Space Shuttle Program, launching in May 2011 from the same pad. This flight, known as NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2, is an end-to-end test to validate the SpaceX crew transportation system, including launch, in-orbit, docking and landing...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
NASA has awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three private US space companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) as the country prepares to return humans to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972. The awards are firm-...
07 June 2021
Bezos to join auction winner on first crewed New Shepard flight
The winner of a live online auction who will secure a place on New Shepard’s first human flight slated to lift off next month, will be joined by Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark, the founder of Blue Origin announced today. Currently the world’s ...
02 August 2021
US GAO upholds SpaceX's Moon lander contract
NASA did not violate regulations when it awarded SpaceX the sole contract to build a Moon lander, the US Government Accountability Office said Friday, following their investigation into the contract process after protests were lodged by rivals Blue ...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
...at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight launched May 30 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida... and Andrew Feustel, and the fourth most overall. The Demo-2 test flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program,...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
Satellite servicing firm Astroscale is getting ready to launch its ELSA-d mission – the world’s first commercial demonstration of space debris docking, capture and removal in lower earth orbit (LEO). This ground-breaking mission will launch Saturday...
