June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... reusable rocket to deliver people to Mars. The problem of spacecraft entry and descent to Mars is difficult to solve and there ...the next 10 years, SpaceX will build 1000 reusable Dragon crew spacecraft (100 vehicles per year) at the company’s plant ...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... since the 1972 Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. According to Musk, the Moonshot mission would launch on a Dragon 2 crew spacecraft using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is expected to launch...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...the orbital laboratory. Scheduled for liftoff on Saturday, 14 November, at 7:49 pm EST (0049 GMT on 15 Nov), the Crew Dragon is the first crew spacecraft to be NASA-certified for regular flights with astronauts since the space shuttle nearly 40 years...
12 May 2016
Boeing CST-100 Flight Postponed Until 2018
... to take astronauts to space,” she said. Regan said it was an “aspiration” for Boeing to be the first U.S. company to fly a crewed spacecraft to the ISS, in part because the company is the prime contractor for the station. “There’s a lot of pride...
28 December 2020
First piece of the Chinese Space Station is set to launch in 2021
... to stay in space for several months, Jianping added. Once that mission is complete, the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-13 crewed spacecraft will be launched and a second group of astronauts sent into space, said Jianping. All in all...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... the hellish combustion temperatures and pressures The design of environmental and life support systems for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the structured exploration of space...
