Tag: Commercial Crew
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Component fatigue caused early shutdown of Merlin engine on last SpaceX launch
File photo of nine Merlin 1D engines firing on a Falcon 9 launch in 2018. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has concluded fatigue on an engine cover caused one of the nine Merlin 1D first stage engines on the company’s most recent launch to shut down early during ascent, leading to the loss of the booster during…
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Cancer survivor named to SpaceX flight promoting St. Jude hospital
Haley Arceneaux will become youngest American to fly in space. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital A 29-year-old cancer survivor, now a physician’s assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will blast off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule later this year for a flight dedicated to raising money for the Memphis medical center. It…
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Launch of Starliner test flight slips to no earlier April 2
The Boeing Starliner crew module is hoisted across the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 14, 2021, to be mated with the service module. Credit: Boeing/John Proferes The launch of the next test flight of Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule has been delayed to no earlier than…
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Crew Dragon breaks record for longest flight by human-rated U.S. spacecraft
An astronaut snapped this picture of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft while outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk Jan. 27. Credit: NASA The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that carried four astronauts to the International Space Station in November broke the record Sunday for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. crew vehicle, surpassing the…
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Entrepreneur books SpaceX flight to benefit children’s research hospital
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and a veteran jet pilot with more than 6,000 hours flying time, is chartering a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to low-Earth orbit for a purely private, non-government mission that will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Isaacman is shown…
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Axiom reveals first all-private crew for trip to International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Former NASA astronaut and Axiom vice president Michael López-Alegría will fly on the Ax-1 mission as commander. He will be joined by Canadian investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy, American entrepreneur and non-profit activist investor Larry Connor, and impact investor and philanthropist Eytan Stibbe of Israel. Credit: Axiom Space…
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Starliner test flight next on ULA’s launch schedule after military mission delay
The Starliner crew module for the unpiloted Orbital Flight Test-2 mission was mated to its service module Jan. 14 inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Boeing/John Proferes The U.S. Space Force has decided to delay the planned late February launch of two military satellites aboard…
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Boeing making progress on Starliner software for test flight in March
The crew module Boeing’s second Starliner spacecraft is lifted Jan. 13 inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Boeing/John Proferes Boeing said Monday it has re-qualified software for the company’s Starliner crew capsule after programming errors cut short the spacecraft’s first orbital test flight in 2019,…
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Three astronauts assigned to Crew Dragon mission in late 2021
The members of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station. Pictured from left are NASA astronaut Raja Chari, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn. Credit: NASA/ESA Rookie NASA astronaut Raja Chari — a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot — veteran physician-astronaut Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency…
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Crew-rated SpaceX booster returns to Cape Canaveral with a lean
The Falcon 9 booster from the Crew-1 launch returned to Port Canaveral on Thursday aboard SpaceX’s drone ship “Just Read the Instructions.” Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now The Falcon 9 booster that launched four astronauts toward orbit last weekend arrived back on Florida’s Space Coast Thursday aboard a SpaceX drone ship, sailing into Port…