SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously […]
SpaceX capsule splashes down, returning four astronauts from Space Station
Los Angeles, USReuters The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Freedom, carrying three US NASA astronauts and an Italian […]
“SpaceX, this is Resilience”: Four astronauts begin six-month stay on space station
Washington DC, USReuters Four astronauts riding a newly-designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX greeted their new crewmates aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday after successfully docking in a landmark achievement for private space travel. In NASA’s first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately-owned spacecraft, the SpaceX Crew Dragon […]
“One heck of a ride”: SpaceX launches astronauts into space
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft. SpaceX’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule, which the crew has dubbed Resilience, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]