Tag: space-x
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SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight
Between Sunday night and Monday night, SpaceX teams in Texas, Florida, and California supervised three Falcon 9 rocket launches and completed a full dress rehearsal ahead of the next flight of the company’s giant Starship launch vehicle. This was a remarkable sequence of events, even for SpaceX, which has launched a mission at an average…
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A commander’s lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket that launched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on SpaceX’s first crew mission in 2020 launched and landed for the 19th and final time just before Christmas, then tipped over on its recovery ship during the trip back to Cape Canaveral, Florida. This particular booster, known by the tail number…
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SpaceX broke its record for number of launches in a year
It probably seems like SpaceX is launching almost every day, and that’s not far from the case. It also might seem like SpaceX is regularly breaking one of its records, whether it’s in the number of launches, turnaround time, or reusing Falcon 9 boosters. This is also true. SpaceX blew past one of those records…
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Four-person crew returns to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule
A SpaceX Dragon capsule with a crew of four returning from the International Space Station streaked through the atmosphere over Florida and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, closing out the company’s initial commercial crew contract with NASA. But SpaceX has at least eight more space station crew rotation missions under contract with…