06 October 2016
Blue Origin New Shepard abort system test successful
.... According to Ariane Cornell, who hosted the Blue Origin even webcast, ““Today’s mission is totally focused on a successful crew capsule escape with the understanding that the booster will likely be lost.” However, the propulsion module surprised...
13 October 2021
Blue Origin's second all civilian crew successfully reaches space
...their harnesses to experience zero gravity. Shortly afterward the crew capsule reached the Kármán line – the imaginary boundary 100 ...around 15:58pm GMT. After deploying its parachutes, the crew capsule made its way back to Earth’s surface, landing...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
..., Texas. Among other things, the pressurised crew capsule and its reusable launch vehicle made headlines for...to the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 14 crew on Soyuz TMA-9. Adopting a functionalist approach would remove the ...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
...to the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule has started preparations for its first unpiloted test flight to...other systems, which has caused delays to their first crew launches by several years. Something that has not gone...
24 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
... will experience three times the force of gravity as the spacecraft accelerates towards the boundary. Once the crew capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, the astronauts can enjoy several minutes of weightlessness...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... because of low weld-strengths) and little to no reserves had spread to SLS’s sister programmes: the Orion crew capsule (a holdover from Constellation)and Exploration Ground Systems (a conglomeration of launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center). The...
