18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... Behnken and Doug Hurley participating in their Demo-2 spacesuits. Demo-2 is the final major milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. Once Demo...
08 January 2023
Spaceflight
...” and the “Cold War space race”, via science, exploration and the space infrastructure, to “Astroculture” and human spaceflight - in six pithy chapters. The account is predominantly an American view, but this is due to the brevity of the series...
22 June 2021
Space Perspective confirms successful test flight
... co-CEO and founder Taber MacCallum. “It is an incredible privilege launching from the space coast, where the history of human spaceflight was forged over the past decades and continues to build momentum today. Flying on Spaceship Neptune will...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... still in orbit and pose hazards to satellites and human spaceflight. Such tests, which are entirely avoidable, have produced...poses a threat to all users of space, including human spaceflight, in the affected orbits, as debris cannot distinguish ...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
... and all of our suppliers who worked incredibly hard to develop, test, and fly the first commercial human spaceflight system in history to be certified by NASA,” said SpaceX boss Elon Musk. “This is a great honor that inspires confidence...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight completing three orbits of Earth. “It all started when I saw... joke by NASA astronaut Cady Coleman during her first spaceflight (STS-73) didn’t preclude her from a further Space...
