February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... are enabled. The main intention of this research was to produce a basic, standard design for a new generation of crewed spacecraft that supports extended long-term missions. This universal design concept represents just the starting point...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
...is working with the American aerospace industry as companies develop and operate a new generation of spacecraft and launch systems capable of carrying crews to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station. Commercial human space transportation...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... Salyut 7 station, and equipment was transferred from Salyut 7 to Mir. It was the only time in history that a crewed spacecraft docked with two space stations on the same mission - and the only time in history...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...and systems. Orion, the world’s only deep-space crew spacecraft, is the core of the Mars Base Camp ... While in the Spider Walker configuration, which provides the crew the ability to conduct scientific operations with minimal geologic disturbance...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... Apollo command and service module and the Space Shuttle orbiter, arguably America’s two most iconic crewed spacecraft. And, second, because the company’s CST-100 Starliner - due to transport American astronauts to orbit in the near...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... new heavy-lift Long March 10 rocket are in production and being tested. An automated prototype of a three to six crew spacecraft called Mengzhou (‘Dream Vessel’) was flight tested as early as May 2020. Intended for deep space missions...
