13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... Station; seats that reportedly cost $70 million each. That is set to change when SpaceX’s Crew Dragon takes to the skies with its first crewed flight, known as Demo 2, which is planned for launch in May 2020. The company’s first...
02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
...After reaching a peak altitude of 105.6 kilometers, the crew capsule separated from the propulsion module before landing later with...not any human hitchhikers on this launch, but the first crewed flights of the vehicle could come as early as this year,...
01 October 2021
FAA investigating Blue Origin safety procedures after open letter from ex-employees
... authors write. The damning essay comes less than two weeks before the next Blue Origin crewed flight. Scheduled for launch on 12 October, New Shepard is expected to loft Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of Planet, and Glen de Vries...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... the audio system for Exploration Mission-2, the first crewed flight for the Orion spacecraft. The system, which will... part of NASA’s Orion program positions Harris for future crewed space flight work, as the U.S. government continues to deepen its ...
28 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... (Orion is under development, and passed its own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit farther away than the original plan of conducting it in ...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... develops the reusable Ascent Element vehicle and leads crewed flight operations and training. ∙ Northrop Grumman provides the...the Moon. ∙ Draper leads descent guidance and provides flight avionics. "National challenges call for a national response....
