Tag: Crew Dragon
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Forecasters expect good weather for Crew Dragon test launch Saturday
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolls out of the hangar at pad 39A in this file photo. Credit: SpaceX The first official launch weather outlook issued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force meteorologists predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for the predawn liftoff Saturday of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on a test flight to…
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Take an aerial 4K video tour of the Crew Dragon atop Falcon 9
Take an aerial tour of the Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was shot in 4k video resolution by a drone camera during pre-launch testing. The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 will return to the launch pad this week for its first test…
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Scorched SpaceX rocket returns to port in Florida, ready to launch a fourth time
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrived at Port Canaveral on Sunday after a two-and-a-half-day journey from the rocket’s landing zone in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Singed and blackened from three fiery trips to the edge of space and back, a Falcon 9 rocket returned to Cape Canaveral on…
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NASA, SpaceX clear Crew Dragon for critical March 2 test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket assigned to the Demo-1 mission inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A on Dec. 18. 2018. Credit: SpaceX NASA managers held a flight readiness review Friday and cleared SpaceX to press ahead with work to ready a Falcon 9 rocket and…
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NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station
An artist’s conception shows a Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station. (SpaceX / NASA Illustration) NASA gave the all-clear today for the first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station in a week, setting the stage for crewed missions later this year. There won’t be any crew aboard…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly fires engines in test
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Crew Dragon spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft when the Falcon 9 was on the…