02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
... ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations. Crew Dragon Endeavour will return back to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair in Florida for inspection and processing. Teams will examine the spacecraft’s data and performance...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
...the first time astronauts will fly on a private rocket, a SpaceX Falcon 9 currently in position on Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy ...expected to start around four hours prior to launch via spacex.com/launches If you've enjoyed reading this article, please...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... tests, and a successful demonstration of the upgraded parachute system during Crew Dragon’s in-flight abort test Additionally, SpaceX and NASA have jointly executed a series of mission simulations from launch and docking to departure and landing...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
... GMT), 24 hours after its initial take-off had been scrubbed due to bad weather. Andy Tran, a SpaceX production supervisor, said in a video of the launch that the Falcon 9 was carrying 133 commercial and government...
01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... “Reboot”, a reference to ispace’s management of HAKUTO, a Google Lunar XPRIZE competition finalist. ispace has contracted directly with SpaceX to carry its spacecraft—its lunar orbiter/lander and lunar rovers—for the HAKUTO-R program as secondary...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
... docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday. Behnken and Hurley, the first astronauts to fly to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the station, were welcomed as crew members of Expedition 63 by fellow NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and...
