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...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... to Earth, including safely undocking from the Space Station, manoeuvring away, performing a de-orbit burn, separating the crew capsule from the service module, and then flying through the atmosphere before landing under parachutes in a New...
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...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... and review of data from sensors and imagery. Orion’s crew capsule uses a ‘skip’ manoeuvre to help deal with the ...nearly 5,000 degree Fahrenheit temperature that builds up as the capsule returns through the Earth’s atmosphere at a blistering 25,000 ...
