Also, flying on the first crewed test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft will be Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. Crew Dragon is slated to be launched in April 2019. The first regular mission of Crew Dragon will be carried out by Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins. The new spacefl...
Related: SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 Test Flight in Pictures A new kind of Dragon SpaceX has been developing Crew Dragon under a $2.6 billion commercial-crew deal, which NASA awarded the company in 2014. Aerospace giant Boeing got a deal then, too: $4.2 billion to get its CST-100 Sta...
On Saturday, August 1, NASA and SpaceX plan to complete theirhistoric Demo-2 mission, the first crewed test flight of the new Crew Dragon capsule which will ferry astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft will undock from the station where it has been...
Known as NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2, the mission is an end-to-end test flight to validate the SpaceX crew transportation system, including launch, in-orbit, docking and landing operations. This is SpaceX’s second spaceflight test of its Crew Dragon and its first test with astronauts aboard, ...
NASA and SpaceX have achieved a milestone in American spaceflight, launching two astronauts in the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule.
and thrusters that abruptly stopped working on the initial leg of its first crewed test flight. ...
crewed test flight—the final hurdle before NASA could certify it for regular use, reportsReuters’ Joey Roulette. But it had beenplagued with problemsfrom the start, enduringyears of delays,budget overruns,flawed uncrewed test flightsandmultiple scrubbed launchesbefor...
It will also be the first crewed mission for SpaceX since its founding 18 years ago. The upcoming Crew Dragon mission, dubbed Demo-2, will be the final test for SpaceX, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. This also will be the first time NASA astro...
The plan is to fly Starliner back to Earth autonomously after testing wraps up, but Boeing has a lot of work ahead of it if it ever wants to be paid for a Starliner flight. During the first leg of its crewed test flight in June, Starliner sprung several helium leaks, and more...
If all goes well with the Demo-1 Crew Dragon mission, SpaceX will launch to more big test flights: an in-flight abort test and the first crewed spaceflight. In June, SpaceX plans to launch an in-flight abort test to demonstration the Crew Dragon's escape system. The spacecraft is eq...