Tag: crew dragon
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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft returns to California port for the last time
SpaceX has returned one of its reusable Dragon spacecraft to the Port of Los Angeles for the last time, wrapping up almost a decade of West Coast recovery operations as the company prepares to move East. Marking the fully successful completion of Cargo Dragon’s CRS-20 space station resupply mission for NASA, the spacecraft’s arrival in…
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NASA is training SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon astronauts for a much longer mission in space
NASA has shown the astronauts assigned to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut start debut are training for a space station assignment many times more than intended. Scheduled to send two NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than (NET) late-April or May 2020, Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 mission will be the very…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft shown off in photo ahead of next launch
NASA has released a brand new SpaceX picture of the next Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled for launch and confirmed that the mission is now scheduled to lift off a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than (NET) January 18th. Known as an In-Flight Abort (IFA) test, the most incredibly challenging mission will represent a significant landmark…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon becomes one fisherman’s “catch of his life”
1 fisherman and area geek has found the “catch of his life” away from the shore of Daytona Beach at Florida following fishing the doorway of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule plus 2 parachutes. Charter boat sailors David Stokes has posted a movie of him embracing his own spectacular grab on YouTube. The Ponce Inlet…
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SpaceX fires up redesigned Crew Dragon as NASA reveals SuperDraco thruster “flaps”
On November 13th, SpaceX showed that a proposed static fire test using a Crew Dragon’s powerful abort thrusters was finished without any difficulty, a strong indication that the business has successfully redesigned the spacecraft to protect against a catastrophic April 2019 burst from reoccurring. Pending a far more comprehensive analysis, Wednesday’s dormant fire must leave…
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Boeing Starliner abort test (mostly) a success as SpaceX nears Crew Dragon static fire
On November 4th, Boeing completed a vital pad abort test of its Starliner spacecraft, successful in spite of an partial collapse of its own parachute recovery program. Three days afterwards, Boeing showed what it considered to be the origin of that anomaly in a November 7th press conference. Meanwhile, SpaceX – having finished Crew Dragon’s…