On Wednesday, Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman is scheduled to blast off on the SpaceX Dragon mission capsule for the Inspiration4 mission, which will orbit the Earth for three days. The event will mark the first-ever all-civilian mission. Isaacman has donated the remaining ...
On March 18, 2025, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore safely splash down on Earth aboard Dragon “Freedom” with Crew-9 astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov. The Starliner astronauts traveled to space on June 5th, 2024, aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule for a 10...
Seated inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft alongside fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Williams and Wilmore undocked from the orbital outpost at 1:05 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 18. Read more Space How to watch the homecoming of NASA’s two ‘stuc...
At the workshop, a team of scientists from NASA Ames Research Center discussed a program called “Red Dragon” that may land a small commercial rover on the surface of Mars in the next decade.7This program would make use of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which by mid-decade will have buil...
It could carry at least 4 tons of cargo to Mars, and far more to the Moon, using the Dragon capsule. It developed this rocket for about $500 million, which is a small fraction of the cost of similar rockets that NASA has developed, or the military. The exact purpose for the rocket ...