Aug 02 Watch 4:41 SpaceX Crew Dragon is heading home, hopes to land Sunday By PBS NewsHour NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are expected to land back on Earth on Sunday afternoon. The historic mission aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor, which has been docked at the International Space Station since May, will mark the first… Continue watching
Aug 02 SpaceX guiding NASA astronauts to 1st splashdown in 45 years By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The first astronauts to ride a SpaceX capsule into orbit headed toward a retro-style splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon to close out a two-month test flight. Continue reading
May 31 SpaceX’s astronaut-riding Dragon arrives at space station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The docking occurred just 19 hours after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Saturday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, the nation’s first astronaut launch to orbit from home soil in nearly a decade. Continue reading
May 30 SpaceX rocket ship blasts off into orbit with 2 Americans By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era of commercial space travel and putting NASA back in the business of launching astronauts from U.S. soil… Continue reading
May 29 WATCH: NASA’s Jim Bridenstine talks ahead of SpaceX launch By Laura Santhanam The launch was first attempted at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Wednesday but scrubbed due to inclement weather. Continue reading
May 27 Watch 6:00 News Wrap: NASA scrubs rocket launch due to storms In our news wrap Wednesday, NASA had to scrub the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade due to bad weather. Storms kept the SpaceX rocket stalled at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but the crew… Continue watching
May 27 Bad weather postpones SpaceX launch of NASA astronauts from Florida By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown Wednesday because of thunderclouds and the danger of lightning. Continue reading
May 26 Watch 6:44 How Elon Musk’s SpaceX is changing American space flight By Miles O'Brien It has been nearly a decade since an American space crew last lifted off from U.S. soil in a spacecraft built here. That's expected to change Wednesday afternoon with the relaunch of manned space flight. But the occasion will be… Continue watching
May 25 WATCH: SpaceX and NASA successfully launch historic flight with U.S. astronauts By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas SpaceX became the first private company ever to launch humans into Earth's orbit when its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule took off from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday carrying two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. Continue reading
May 25 How SpaceX’s Dragon is a sleek, new take on a retro-style capsule By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The Dragon’s clean lines and minimalist interior, with touchscreens instead of a mess of switches and knobs, make even the space shuttles seem yesteryear. Continue reading