05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
... selected to provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station (ISS), only SpaceX’s Crew Dragon has made it to the orbital station, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft still remains grounded. NASA’s HLS...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... more about how deserts and arid regions affect climate. Flown to the ISS on 14 July aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule, EMIT was installed on the Space Station's truss a week later and made its first...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... comes more than four years after SpaceX launched its first astronaut missions using its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Both companies won multi-billion dollar contracts from NASA to provide transporter craft for its...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... NASA decided not to risk a crewed return flight they would have the option of commissioning a dedicated SpaceX Dragon mission to pick them up from the ISS. Such a move would not look good from a PR perspective for...
26 February 2016
SpaceX's Garrett Katzenstein joins Rocket Lab
... to place robotics on Mars with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and managed multiple successful missions to fly the Dragon Capsule (SpaceX) to the International Space Station. “We are delighted to add Garrett to our executive team,” said Peter...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... failed battery charge/discharge unit (BCDU) will come back to Earth in a few months time aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule, so that engineers can inspect the hardware to try to figure out what happened, the space...
