13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
... have been working tirelessly to get us to this point,” added Hopkins. This first Commercial Crew mission is the first of six that SpaceX has contracted with NASA; a partnership that has been in the making for nearly a decade. “I could...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...Dragon capsule. SpaceX built the capsule under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which started under the Obama administration. NASA also announced on 10 November that it had certified the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to legally carry humans, clearing the...
20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... days said John Vollmer, Boeing Vice President and Program Manager for Commercial Crew. Because only 46 days had elapsed, there was ...in between flights," he said. With Starliner out of action, NASA has had to turn to SpaceX to ferry its astronauts to ...
08 July 2020
NASA increases recommendations required by Boeing for Starliner flight
... the software, testing the software and adding resources when required, said Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, in a call with reporters yesterday. Reviewing software procedures however appears to have been a sticking point for...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... many people in this partnership with NASA as were flown in the Mercury program,” SpaceX senior director Benji Reed said during a press briefing earlier this week. Crew-2 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 ET (9:49 am GMT...
02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
...teamwork. After completing training, the new astronauts could launch on American rockets and spacecraft -- developed for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program -- to live and work aboard the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. There they will...
