If you think NASA is frustrated with SpaceX, you’re probably right, Ars Technica “A more blunt assessment was offered by Mary Lynne Dittmar, who is familiar with the thinking of NASA’s human spaceflight program managers. “I find it extraordinary that these sorts of announcements are being made when SpaceX has yet to get crew from the ground to low-Earth orbit,” she told The New York Times. Dittmar serves as executive […]
Well @SpaceX landed a used rocket ship in Florida again. #Boring #CRS9 pic.twitter.com/7c2lWkgDWy — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) July 18, 2016
Boeing falls behind SpaceX in next space race, CNN Money “Boeing said Tuesday that it has pushed the date of its first manned space mission back from 2017 to 2018. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, which will carry the astronauts, is still under development. SpaceX, led by Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, says it intends to have a manned mission in 2017 using its Dragon space capsule. Unlike the Starliner, Dragon […]
NASA SpaceX CRS-6 Pre-Launch News Briefings [Watch] “Today, a Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on the 6th SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Yesterday, NASA held three news briefings to discuss the mission and research on the ISS.” Marc’s note: At the briefing, SpaceX’s Hans Koenigsmann was asked what the probability of success for […]
Critical NASA Science Returns to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft “SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 3:39 p.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 300 miles west of Baja California, returning 3,276 pounds of NASA cargo and science samples from the International Space Station (ISS).”
How NASA’s New Spaceships Stack Up, NPR “Boeing and SpaceX both have new displays standard on every model. But Keith Cowing says there is a difference in the way they look. The Boeing one does harken back to Apollo,” he says. “The SpaceX one, I’ve been in there, and it’s got a sci-fi vibe to it.” SpaceX does look sleeker, and it’d be his first choice. But honestly? He’d fly […]
Dragon Berthed at the International Space Station “ISS Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, with the assistance of NASA’s Rick Mastracchio, successfully berthed the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the space station at 9:06 a.m. EDT.”
NASA Conducts Orion Parachute Test “Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware designed to keep the capsule safe during flight. The test was the first to give engineers in-air data on the performance of the system that jettisons Orion’s forward bay cover. The cover is a shell that fits over Orion’s crew module to […]
NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Two Human-Critical Reviews, SpaceRef Business “Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., recently completed two milestones for NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers. These were the fifth and sixth milestones for SpaceX, a partner in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The company is on track to complete […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station “The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply mission by the company under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.” SpaceX Dragon Docks with the International Space Station (Video)
