SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX and NASA safely launched on Sunday for the first crew rotation mission. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon system has been certified by NASA, the first commercial system in history to achieve such designation. (Image courtesy of SpaceX.) NASA has officially certified its first commercia...
Update 01 June 2020: This story has been updated with details of the Crew Dragon’s successful flight to the International Space Station. Correction 01 June 2020: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said that SpaceX spacecraft had been taking cargo to and from the International Space ...
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SpaceX and NASA estimate that the flight will take place sometime in the second quarter of 2020. When it does happen, the mission will usher in a new era of commercial human spaceflight. Thus far, human beings have been launched into space by government space agencies in the U.S., ...
Since the Apollo 17 crew returned from the Moon in 1972, human spaceflight has been limited to low Earth orbit (LEO). Whether they were aboard Skylab, Mir, the Space Shuttle, a Soyuz capsule, or the International Space Station, no crew has traveled more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) ...
China’s human spaceflight ambitions are surging forward, ranging from new spacesuits for a planned two-person space shot in 2005 to establishing a commercial space tourism industry in 20 years.
Weather delays historic SpaceX launch that would mark return of human spaceflight from U.S. soil The countdown was halted just 16 minutes and 54 seconds before the SpaceX rocket had been due to launch. A second attempt will be made on Saturday...