02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... was planning a Dragon cargo mission to the ISS in November of this year. Senator Bill Nelson, whose single space shuttle flight ended 10 days before the Challenger disaster in 1986, issued a statement in which he said that the Falcon...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
...in a similar way that the original reusable Space Shuttle used to do. The covert space plane is due to take off on 7...a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private space company roots to multitask as a military launch provider too - ...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
... Center, where ships retrieved the crew for a brief helicopter flight to the former space shuttle landing facility. The heat shield of the capsule underwent extreme heat up to 3,500 degrees F during reentry. "Dragon ...
08 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
...” opinions on the Apollo lunar programme and the people involved, as well as “hard-hitting reflections” on the US Space Shuttle programme. This includes a sharing of views on the human and sometimes tragic side of spaceflight, notably his personal...
05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
...- the last big launch from KSC was the final Space Shuttle mission - launch fever has come again to this part ...which means it could launch heavier and more complex cargo to space. Once operational, SpaceX could start launching big national security ...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... as the beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
