Tag: Crew Dragon Demo-1
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly fires engines in test
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Crew Dragon spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft when the Falcon 9 was on the…
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SpaceX about one month away from first commercial crew test flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Jan. 10 with NASA statement confirming target launch date in February. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft shortly after the Falcon 9 rocket was erected vertical Jan. 3. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX founder Elon Musk said this weekend that the company is about one month…
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SpaceX crew capsule, Falcon 9 rocket roll out to pad 39A in Florida for tests
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at launch pad 39A on Thursday morning. Credit: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX rolled out the company’s first space-worthy Crew Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 launcher to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time Thursday, beginning a series of fit checks…
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NASA announces target date for first SpaceX Crew Dragon flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: NASA SpaceX is targeting Jan. 7 for launch of its first Crew Dragon commercial ferry ship on an unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station, NASA announced Wednesday, a major milestone in the…
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Safety panel says much work left to do before commercial crew ships fly
A test model of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft descends under four main parachutes over Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California during a drop test earlier this year. The Crew Dragon will normally return to splash down at sea, but this test gathered data on the parachutes’ performance during an abort that would force…
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No commercial crew test flights expected this year
Artist’s concept of the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon (lower left and upper right). Credit: NASA BREMEN, Germany — NASA has released new target dates for test flights of commercial crew capsules in development by SpaceX and Boeing, with unpiloted demo missions by SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spaceships now scheduled for January…
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SpaceX’s astronaut walkway installed on Florida launch pad
SpaceX’s crew access arm is in its retracted position at launch pad 39A after installation Monday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now The walkway astronauts will use to board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule before missions to the International Space Station was added to historic launch pad 39A on Monday. A crane erected at the seaside…
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Crew walkway arrives at launch pad 39A in Florida
The crew access arm on the deck of launch pad 39A awaits its installation. Photo: Ken Kremer/spaceupclose.com. The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photos of the access arm shared on social media show it arrived…
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SpaceX’s first space-worthy Crew Dragon capsule arrives at Cape Canaveral
The Crew Dragon spacecraft slated to fly on SpaceX’s first commercial crew orbital test flight, without astronauts on-board, arrived at Cape Canaveral this week. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon spacecraft, a capsule designed to eventually carry astronauts on treks to the International Space Station, has arrived at Cape Canaveral to begin preparations for launch…