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Questions Galore After SpaceX Crew Dragon Explodes in Testing
Yesterday, April 20, at 6:02pm local time, Florida Today published a breaking story by Emre Kelly, with photos by one of their photojournalists, Craig Bailey, of dark, acrid, orange smoke rising from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the first indication that there had been an accident there. Bailey had been coincidentally covering another assignment, and […] More
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Crew Dragon Kicks Off Demo-1 Mission to Return Human Spaceflight to American Shores
America’s decade-long effort to develop commercial vehicles to restore U.S. crew access to the International Space Station (ISS) following the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet drew one step closer to fruition earlier this morning (Saturday, 2 March), when a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster roared aloft from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center […] More
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Decade-Long Crew Dragon Program Stands Ready for Maiden Mission (Part 2)
In the small hours of Saturday morning (2 March), a decade-long effort to restore U.S. human spaceflight launch capability to American soil for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era will take a significant step forward, as SpaceX and NASA deliver the first Crew Dragon on an unpiloted test-flight to the […] More
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Decade-Long Crew Dragon Program Stands Ready for Maiden Mission (Part 1)
If all goes well, later this year America will jointly celebrate not only 50 years since humanity’s first manned landing on the Moon, but also the return to U.S. soil of human spaceflight launch capability, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era. Current plans call for the first piloted Crew […] More
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Good Test Fire for First Crew Dragon Mission Paves Way to Launch NET Late February
SpaceX conducted a long-awaited Static Test Fire yesterday (Jan 24) of the Falcon 9 rocket which will soon launch their first Crew Dragon from Florida, marking the first time a crewed vehicle and ground systems have been integrated together on pad 39A since space shuttle Atlantis last soared on the STS-135 mission almost 8 years […] More
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Fincke Joins Starliner Test Flight, Commercial Crew Stands Ready for 2019 Debut
Yesterday’s announcement by NASA that astronaut Eric Boe has been removed from the inaugural piloted test-flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner—tentatively scheduled to launch in August—came as a surprising blow for a veteran shuttle flyer who had been intimately involved in the Commercial Crew Program for several years. Boe was initially assigned to work with Boeing […] More
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Commercial Crew Heads for Regular Missions, Despite First Piloted Flights NET 2018
This week’s announcement by NASA of eight additional crew-rotation missions to the International Space Station (ISS)—four each by Commercial Crew transportation Capability (CCtCap) partners Boeing and SpaceX—now secures the maximum number of contracted flights available to them. When the two companies were chosen in September 2014, after a multi-phase selection campaign, the terms of the […] More
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NASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission, As Space Station Prepares for IDA-2 Installation
With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S.-built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based launch services company—which received a $2.6 billion slice of […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Kennedy Space Center, Boeing, SpaceX, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, CCAFS, Space Exploration, Commercial Crew Development Program, astronaut, Commercial SpaceNASA Outlines Commercial Crew Goals Critical for Upcoming Test Flights
In 2015, both Boeing and SpaceX—NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partners—received orders for spaceflights to restore the United States’ capability to launch since the end of the shuttle program in July 2011. In 2016, both companies must achieve critical goals to make 2017 test flights—and 2018 International Space Station (ISS) flights—possible. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, […] More
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Boeing Receives Second Post-Certification Commercial Crew Mission
For the second time this year, Boeing has received a Post-Certification Mission (PCM) order from NASA to perform a dedicated crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), under the requirements of its $4.2 billion Commercial Crew transportation Capability (CCtCap) agreements. Having been jointly selected in September 2014, alongside SpaceX, to restore the capability […] More
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in News, NASA, Commercial, Space, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Commercial Crew Development Program, Ben Evans, astronaut, Space CoastSpaceX Receives First Order for Space Station Crew-Exchange Mission from NASA
Both of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program partners—Boeing and SpaceX—now have mission orders to deliver their first long-duration crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming years, thereby restoring the capability to launch U.S. astronauts aboard U.S.-built vehicles, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space […] More
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Frustrated Bolden Urges Congress to Fund Commercial Crew, Announces $490 Million Contract Modification With Russia
It was difficult to miss the frustration in NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden’s words, as he submitted a letter to the leadership of the Congressional committees responsible for the space agency’s budget, denouncing the continued lack of adequate funding for the Commercial Crew Program and announcing a modification to the uneasy contract with Russia, which currently provides […] More
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