Less than 19 hours after soaring into orbit from Florida, SpaceX’s Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken reached the International Space Station.
Read MoreHistory has been made! For the first time since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, American astronauts have launched into space in an American spacecraft from American soil, ending a nearly nine-year gap in the United States’ ability to independently launch people to the ISS.
Read MoreThe historic launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was postponed because of weather concerns. This would have been the first human orbital spaceflight from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
Read MoreI was not expecting NASA to select SpaceX as one of the three companies to build human landing systems for the Artemis program. However, since the agency is looking to make the effort sustainable during phase two, it makes complete sense.
Read MoreAfter nearly nine years, NASA is finally on the cusp of regaining its ability to independently launch people into orbit. The Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission is slated to send NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station for a stay of at least a month as early as late May.
Read MoreJust over a year after the announcement of the Artemis program and its goal to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, NASA has finally awarded the initial contracts for the most important piece of architecture to achieve that goal: human landing systems. These are the first contracts to build human-rated lunar landers since the Apollo era.
Read MoreIn the first human spaceflight launch of 2020, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut were sent to the International Space Station to begin a six-month stay in space.
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