04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... NASA has been weighing seriously the possibility of returning Starliner empty and instead using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to return the two astronauts. However, there seems little consensus among those responsible for making...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... According to Musk, the Moonshot mission would launch on a Dragon 2 crew spacecraft using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from...longer trips, that still has to be installed on board the Dragon 2. In a press release issued along with the press conference...
24 August 2024
NASA formally abandons Starliner for crew return to Earth
...through to February 2025 when they will fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX...crew, along with Wilmore and Williams, until the Crew 9 Dragon arrives. Crew 8 are scheduled to wrap up their own ...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... way to the International Space Station (ISS). Once the Dragon craft arrives at its destination on Wednesday (February 22nd), ... the stratosphere and troposphere high above Earth. The Dragon craft is also carrying research materials that includes an ...
31 March 2021
Inspiration4 names final crew members for world’s first all-civilian mission to space
... Hayley Arceneaux under the command of Jared Isaacman. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the crew aboard a Dragon spacecraft later this year. The full crew was introduced publicly on 30 March, 2021 for the first...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... comparison with a typical air journey? Take SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. With four people on board,... Then, at the technological level represented by today’s Crew Dragon, it would still be permissible for over 10,000 space ...
