Tag: Human Spaceflight
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NASA expected to detail costs for fast-track moon landing program next month
Jim Morhard testifies before a Senate committee in 2018 during his confirmation hearing to begin NASA’s deputy administrator. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA will release a budget profile with a cost estimate for the agency’s Artemis moon landing program in February in conjunction with the White House’s fiscal year 2021 budget request, according to NASA’s deputy…
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SpaceX will trigger an intentional rocket failure to prove crew capsule’s safety
Illustration of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket during the company’s uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This demonstration test of Crew Dragon’s launch escape capabilities is designed to provide valuable data toward NASA certifying SpaceX’s crew transportation system for carrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX…
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Live coverage: SpaceX successfully performs Crew Dragon abort test
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabbyending] NASA TV coverage of the SpaceX In-Flight Abort Test begins around 15 minutes prior to liftoff,…
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Koch, Meir continue space station battery replacements on successful spacewalk
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) after completion of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Christina Koch, seen through the helmet camera of crewmate Jessica Meir on Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir floated back outside the International Space Station Wednesday for history’s second…
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Boeing expects ‘minimal refurbishment’ on reusable Starliner crew capsule
Boeing’s first space-ready Starliner crew capsule, named Calypso, is back inside the company’s assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a two-day orbital test flight in December. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now While NASA and Boeing engineers investigate the cause of a software error that cut short the first orbital test…
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Video: Preview of dramatic Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test
SpaceX’s final planned Crew Dragon test flight before astronauts ride the commercial spaceship into orbit is scheduled for Saturday, when an unpiloted crew capsule will fire off the top of a Falcon 9 rocket shortly after launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to test the craft’s in-flight emergency escape capability. This video illustrates…
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Dynetics, Sierra Nevada partnering on human-rated lunar lander proposal
Artist’s concept of the Dynetics proposal for a Human Landing System. Credit: Dynetics Dynetics, an Alabama-based company with broad experience as a supplier of aerospace components and systems, is seeking a major role in NASA’s Artemis moon program with a proposal for a human-rated lunar lander developed in partnership with Sierra Nevada Corp. and other…
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SpaceX test-fires rocket ahead of Crew Dragon in-flight abort test
Credit: Steven Young / Spaceflight Now SpaceX fired up nine Merlin main engines at the bottom of a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, running the rocket through a practice countdown before a scheduled liftoff Jan. 18 with a Crew Dragon capsule to test the human-rated ship’s high-altitude abort capability. The…
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NASA, Boeing aim to deliver first SLS core stage to Kennedy Space Center by this fall
The first fully-assembled core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out of its factory Wednesday and was loaded in a specially-designed barge for transport to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for testing. Credit: NASA After years of delays, the core stage for NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out…
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Live coverage: SpaceX prepares for Crew Dragon in-flight abort test
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will loft an unpiloted Crew Dragon spacecraft on a high-altitude test of the capsule’s launch abort system. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Credit: Steven Young / Spaceflight…