17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked to the International Space Station at 11:01 pm EST Monday, transporting NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor ...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
.... NASA is helping to pay for the development of Crew Dragon and one other capsule design, Boeing’s CTS-100 Starliner, under...thing from happening again. SpaceX also had to redesign the Crew Dragon’s parachutes in 2019 after a test in which one of the ...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
...drop tests, 12 successful multi-parachute tests, and a successful demonstration of the upgraded parachute system during Crew Dragon’s in-flight abort test Additionally, SpaceX and NASA have jointly executed a series of mission simulations from launch...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
...a new era in human spaceflight. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down...each astronaut had flown aboard. Nearly 19 hours later, Crew Dragon docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony...
03 June 2016
Elon Musk: Mars mission architecture to be unveiled in September
... quite a high launch cadence,” he commented. SpaceX's Dragon v2, or the Crew Dragon will be unveiled next year. The vehicle is being ... astronauts to and from the ISS. A version of the Dragon will also be involved in the Mars missions. Musk also hinted...
16 November 2020
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS
... we look forward to watching this crew arrive at station to carry on our partnership for all of humanity.” The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module about 11 pm Monday...