In a hastily arranged announcement, Elon Musk has revealed a plan to launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a circumlunar mission, with two paying customers. The launch, which will be conducted by a Falcon Heavy rocket in late 2018, is being seen as a major statement of intent by SpaceX, especially when NASA is conducting a study to launch a similar mission at least a year later.
SpaceX’s Dragon 2 test vehicle has conducted her maiden flight on Wednesday, leaping off a…
Mission planners at NASA have installed four Commercial Crew demonstration missions into the International Space…
SpaceX’s CRS-12 Dragon unberthed from the ISS ahead of a return to a Pacific Ocean…
SpaceX conducted its first flight from the US Eastern Range following July’s scheduled maintenance stand…
Launch delays are sometimes part of the equation in determining when specific missions launch in…
SpaceX has entered into an agreement with NASA for a Dragon mission to Mars, set to…
Expedition 40 commander Steven Swanson, along with cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, have returned…
SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contender, the Dragon V2, will initially return to terra firma under parachutes,…
Dragon V2 Program Lead Dr. Garrett Reisman believes SpaceX’s new crew vehicle is a “giant…
SpaceX head Elon Musk has unveiled the latest version of his Dragon spacecraft via a…
Planners within the ISS program have manifested the next two Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) missions.…
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, following its…
The planned unberthing and return of SpaceX’s CRS-2 Dragon (SpX-2) was delayed by one day due…
Back to full health, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was captured and then berthed by the Canadarm…
SpaceX conducted its tenth launch on Friday, sending the fourth Dragon spacecraft on a mission…
When STS-129 launches next week, Atlantis will have one eye on the future, as she…
The OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson) Cygnus has arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday…
After 31 days of berthed operations, the CRS-14 Dragon from SpaceX wrapped up her mission…
Firmly entrenched in its utilization phase, the International Space Station is in excellent science shape,…