22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
...in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. The DM-1 (Demo-1) had been planned for an inflight abort test later this ...with a similar reassuring message echoing that from SpaceX: "The NASA and SpaceX teams are assessing the anomaly that occurred today...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... flight astronauts once the Orbital Flight Test has been completed successfully. SpaceX has said that its uncrewed flight test, named Demo-1, will be ready by November this year. Its crewed flight will launch Robert...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...funding amounting to $579 million, Dynetics: $253 million and SpaceX: $135 million. Two other companies, Boeing and Vivace, put... that working with these teammates, we will succeed.” SpaceX human-rated Starship concept. One of three concepts selected...
02 August 2021
US GAO upholds SpaceX's Moon lander contract
...$1 billion in contracts to three private US space companies – SpaceX, Dynetics and Blue Origin – to design and develop human landing...that NASA acted improperly in making a single award to SpaceX, the Accountability office said in its statement. Blue ...
07 June 2021
Bezos to join auction winner on first crewed New Shepard flight
... following protests submitted by Blue Origin and Dynetics, SpaceX’s other competitor. “The Human Landing System program needs...Firefly Aerospace, and a former engineer at Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, in an interview with the Financial Times...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
... Ocean off the coast of Hawaii on 25 July, 1975, at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight launched May 30 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching orbit, Behnken and...
