20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... Starliner out of action, NASA has had to turn to SpaceX to ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station instead. ...first two crewed Starliner flights, CFT and Starliner-1, have now been reassigned to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission that...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... missions must use U.S. transportation vehicles certified by NASA, such as the ones developed by Boeing and SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). To accommodate this, NASA has expanded the International Space Station Utilization NASA...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
...00:32 CET today, marking the start of a six-month stay on the orbiting outpost. The four Crew-3 astronauts were launched in a new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, dubbed Endurance, atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA...
12 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... well beyond their original design lifetimes. Russia currently ferries crews between Earth and the space station, but U.S. commercial ... from space junk. The Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft could do limited reboosts of the lab’s ...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
...) for space, setting global standards for safety, security, efficiency and sustainability in space. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry humans to orbit, delivered astronauts Robert...
