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8 hours ago · NASA and SpaceX later determined the debris fell from orbit in February, and earlier this month, SpaceX employees came to the farm to retrieve the wreckage, according to CBC. Pieces of a Dragon ...
2 hours ago · NASA extends Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams' mission aboard Boeing's Starliner due to technical challenges like thruster failures and helium leaks. Despite setbacks, NASA assures their safety and plans for a return mission. Boeing faces public scrutiny despite mission success, amid comparisons with SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Both companies play pivotal roles in NASA's crewed missions to the ISS ...
8 hours ago · This is Starliner's first mission to orbit carrying astronauts - the final test needed before NASA can certify it as the U.S. space agency's second ride to the ISS. It would join SpaceX's Crew Dragon, which has dominated the government and nascent private markets for human spaceflight amid Starliner's years-long delays.
2 hours ago · July: SpaceX's most ambitious crewed mission to date is gearing up to launch this summer — it will include the company's first spacewalk-capable spacesuits and a Crew Dragon capsule with an ...
8 hours ago · This was the tenth flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 and first Dragon 2 launch from SLC-40, as the pad was reconfigured and a new Crew Access Tower and Arm was added. CURTIS, KASHIWA, and MicroOrbiter-1 were deployed into orbit from ISS on 11 April 2024. [112]
8 hours ago · Cloaked under the mission name of NROL-186—a National Reconnaissance Office designator—the mission rose from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E at the mountain-ringed West Coast launch site at 8:14 p.m. PDT Friday, marking the 67th SpaceX flight of the year and its tenth of June. A Starlink payload stack is readied for launch.
8 hours ago · But the Starliner program has suffered from comparisons to SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Both companies were awarded multibillion dollar contracts in 2014 to provide the US space agency with rides to the ...
