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SpaceX-NASA mission: A breakdown on rocket, crew capsule, astronauts, launch sequence
Abigailb • 5 years agoThis mission is the final test flight and if it is successful, then NASA will certify SpaceX to continue to fly humans to space.
SpaceX to launch NASA astronauts on 31 May, 12.52 am IST: Here is how to watch it LIVE
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoIf due to unforeseen circumstances, this mission is not able to launch, it has back-up dates on Sunday, 31 May, 12.52 am IST and Monday, 1 June, 12.30 am IST.
Superhero spacesuits: Elon Musk’s SpaceX astronaut suit is like a Tuxedo for the Starship Enterprise
• 5 years agoWhat the SpaceX suits evoke most of all is James Bond’s tuxedo if it were redesigned by Tony Stark as an upgrade for James T. Kirk’s next big adventure.
SpaceX reaches for milestone in human spaceflight – a private company will launch NASA astronauts into orbit
• 5 years agoCompared to an average space shuttle mission that cost US$1.6 billion, NASA is paying only $55 million per seat for SpaceX’s upcoming ISS flights.
A new era dawns in human spaceflight: SpaceX needs to get the rocket science right to launch the NASA astronauts
• 5 years agoThis launch will put SpaceX ahead of other commercial companies including Boeing’s Starliner and Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are badass astronauts and dads: SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell
• 5 years agoBoth are former military pilots who rose to the rank of colonel — Behnken in the US Air Force, Hurley in the Marines — before joining NASA in 2000.
Who are the NASA astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who will pilot SpaceX's crew capsule?
• 5 years agoHurley and Behnken — both two-time space shuttle fliers — were among four astronauts chosen in 2015 for NASA’s commercial crew program.
NASA has purchased an additional Soyuz seat from Russian space agency, as a failsafe, to ensure it will have a ride to the ISS
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoNASA would compensate for bumping a Russian cosmonaut from the flight by flying their cargo to the ISS on a US-built spacecraft.
What do we know spacex’s astronaut suits and the vehicle they use to travel to the launchpad; launch on Sunday, 31 May, 12.52 am IST
• 5 years agoMusk named his rocket after the “Star Wars” Millennium Falcon and the capsule's name comes from his jab at the doubters when he started SpaceX.
Looking at the journey of how NASA and its astronauts became one of SpaceX’s biggest customers
• 5 years agoNASA planted the seeds for a commercial program, starting a competition for companies to send cargo to the International Space Station.