NASA and SpaceX teams have returned NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth, completing the historic Crew-1 mission. Crew Dragon Resilience splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:57 AM EDT (06:57 UTC) on Sunday May 2, marking the end of the first of six contracted, long duration, operational missions for SpaceX as a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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Dragon Resilience performs port relocation to clear way for future vehicles
by Pete HardingThe SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon Resilience performed a relocation to a new docking port aboard the…
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After a 27.5 hour commute, Resilience and its crew successfully docked to the International Space…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 19:27 EST…
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while IM-2 lands sideways
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is now seeing more results from the work…
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After scrubbing a launch attempt on Monday, March 3, and destacking Ship 34 to address…
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SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the…
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Launch Roundup: Starship, Ariane 6 and telescope missions delayed, lunar lander flies
by Martin SmithSeveral significant missions were scheduled for this week, including the third lunar lander to launch…
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CommercialEuropeanInternational
Isar Aerospace completes static fires of Spectrum rocket ahead of first European launch
Isar Aerospace has announced the completion of static fires on both stage one and stage…
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IndianInternationalJapanSpaceX
Launch Roundup: New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity, India and Japan launch navigation satellites
by Martin SmithThis week’s schedule has a mix of orbital and suborbital missions launching from seven different…
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ArtemisCommercialInternationalOther
NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon
As NASA focuses on returning humans to the Moon with Artemis, commercial providers are gearing…
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SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
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Launch Roundup: New Glenn and Starship headline a week dominated by SpaceX missions
by John SharpSpaceX dominated this week’s launch manifest with two Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight…
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Space science in 2024: Moon missions, Martian milestones, astrophysics discoveries, and more
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
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EuropeanInternational
Europe’s future in space: Vega cadence to increase, HyImpulse’s hybrid rocket
by Martin SmithEuropean companies in the space sector have been developing novel technology to find their unique…
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SpaceX’s record-breaking streak of successful launches and landings ended during the third quarter of 2024,…
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CommercialEuropeanInternationalSpaceX
Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 and Electron to extend satellite constellations
by Martin SmithThis week’s manifest includes the delayed launches of a Falcon 9 with Galileo global positioning…
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After a historic mission, the Polaris Dawn mission, flown by Crew Dragon Resilience with private astronauts,…
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Two days into their mission, the Polaris Dawn crew conducted the highlight of their mission…
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SpaceX has launched a mission that will not only see humans travel the farthest away…