Enlarge / Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Friday morning. (credit: NASA) After a 177-day spaceflight four astronauts returned to Earth early Friday morning aboard Crew Dragon Endurance. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, undocked from the International Space Station on Thursday before […]
Enlarge / SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle is ready to launch four astronauts for NASA. (credit: NASA) On Monday afternoon, a Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Now, less than two days later, SpaceX and NASA are preparing another Crew Dragon for launch. Monday’s landing returned a crew […]
Enlarge / NASA Television of the Crew-2 landing shows three main parachutes deployed, with a fourth one lagging behind. (credit: NASA TV) Officials from NASA and SpaceX say that they are paying attention to a parachute issue with the Dragon spacecraft, but they do not believe significant actions will be needed to address it. Upon […]
Enlarge / NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada watch as an Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard is rolled to the launch pad ahead of the Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. (credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA will not make an official announcement for weeks or months, but two sources say […]
Enlarge / Dr. Sian Proctor seems to have enjoyed three days in orbit. (credit: SpaceX) Four amateur astronauts returned from a three-day private spaceflight this weekend overflowing with enthusiasm about the experience. “Best ride of my life, ” said Dr. Sian Proctor , shortly after emerging from the Crew Dragon capsule. Future customers for such […]
Early on Monday, a Crew Dragon was docked at the “forward” port of the Harmony module. [credit: NASA TV ] Early on Monday morning, four astronauts donned their flight suits and clambered into their Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience. But they were not coming home. Rather, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, as well […]
Enlarge / Jared Isaacman at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX announced Monday that it will fly a space tourism flight as early as the fourth quarter of this year, billing it as the first “all-civilian” mission to space. A tech entrepreneur named Jared Isaacman has financed the mission, named “Inspiration4,” and will […]