Tag: Crew Dragon
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NASA may ask SpaceX to extend duration of Crew Dragon test flight
NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is pictured during a formal verification of SpaceX’s emergency escape system Sept. 18 at launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behnken is wearing a SpaceX spacesuit in this image. Credit: SpaceX NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley may spend more time on the International Space Station…
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Hardware arrives in Florida for Crew Dragon in-flight abort test
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 4 to correct reference to SuperDraco abort engines. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for the in-flight abort test inside a processing facility at Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA/SpaceX Images taken inside SpaceX facilities at Cape Canaveral and released by NASA Thursday show the Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster assigned to an in-flight…
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SpaceX’s first rocket built for humans test-fired in Texas
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was test-fired Aug. 29 at the company’s test site in McGregor, Texas. The booster will launch NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX The Falcon 9 booster assigned to launch two NASA astronauts on an orbital test flight of…
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Live coverage: Kennedy Space Center to reopen Friday
Live coverage of Hurricane Dorian’s impacts on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Kennedy Space Center braces for Hurricane Dorian
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Space Launch System’s Mobile Launcher stands on launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This aerial photo was taken June 28 shortly after the tower arrived at pad 39B for a series of ground tests following rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building, seen in…
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Boeing, SpaceX aim for more commercial crew test flights this fall
Technicians at Boeing’s satellite production facility in El Segundo, California, position a CST-100 Starliner inside an environmental test chamber for testing earlier this year. This specific Starliner vehicle will fly on Boeing’s Crew Flight Test, the first Starliner mission with astronauts on-board. Credit: Boeing Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule could take off in October on its…
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Watch SpaceX Dragon launch pad escape system testing
A slide wire escape system has been undergoing tests at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in readiness for the first SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. The system could be used by astronauts and ground crews to evacuate the launch pad in an emergency and is…
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SpaceX to begin flights under new cargo resupply contract next year
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft closes in for docking at the International Space Station during a test flight March 3. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now SpaceX is set to retire its current fleet of Dragon capsules, in use since 2010, next year and begin flying supplies to the International Space Station on a new variant of the…
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SpaceX points to leaky valve as culprit in Crew Dragon test accident
A prototype of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule completed a pad abort test at Cape Canaveral in May 2015. Credit: SpaceX Investigators believe a leak of propellant inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system led to the capsule’s explosion April 20 during a ground test at Cape Canaveral, and a senior SpaceX official said Monday that…
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Bigelow announces plans for private astronaut flights to space station
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (foreground) and Doug Hurley (background) train in a Crew Dragon simulator for their flight to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX/NASA Bigelow Space Operations says it will charge $52 million per seat to send private astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon ferry ships, and has already paid “substantial…