Crew Dragon Stories May 21
The days are counting down to when SpaceX will launch NASA astronauts to space for the first time in history. With under a week until the historic NASA Demo-2 mission kicks off, both the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft have arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Crew Dragon Stories May 13
What’s equal parts mesmerizing and terrifying? Manually docking the Crew Dragon to the International Space Station.
This week SpaceX released a simulator that puts you behind the Crew Dragon controls to experience docking first-hand.
Crew Dragon Stories March 2
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is truly taking flight in 2020.
The major milestone on the horizon is the historic return of human spaceflight capabilities for the United States for the first time since the Space Shuttle Program ended almost a decade ago. We’ve been hitching a ride on Russian rockets since 2011.
SpaceX and Boeing are tasked with taking astronauts to space from American soil, and SpaceX appears best positioned to win the race.
The real prize, ultimately, is multiple American companies capable of human spaceflight.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be launched in space on a Falcon 9 rocket later this year. SpaceX demonstrated its prerequisite launch one year ago today:
