04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... recent ground and spacecraft testing as they evaluate the Starliner spacecraft's propulsion system during NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. “Teams are taking their time to analyse the results of recent docked hot-fire testing...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
... to American soil.” The Starliner that landed today will be refurbished for Boeing’s first operational crewed mission, following the Crew Flight Test. NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who will fly on that mission, dubbed the spacecraft “Calypso...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann on the first crewed flight test of the new spacecraft. While Ferguson has an... DC. As the new Astrovan II was built specifically as a crew transfer vehicle for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, it incorporates Boeing’s...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
... operations. This is SpaceX’s second spaceflight test of its Crew Dragon and its first test with astronauts aboard, and will pave the way for its certification for regular crew flights to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...test spacecraft and eliminating parachutes and related systems. NASA already qualified the parachute system for crewed flights through an extensive series of 17 developmental tests and eight qualification tests completed at the end of 2018. Engineers...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
... it to space before Bezos, who proclaimed in early June that he and his brother would be part of the first crewed flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle on 20 July. Bezos made announcements of his own yesterday when...
