Nov 08 Astronauts arrive at launch site for 2nd SpaceX crew flight By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday for SpaceX’s second crew launch, coming up next weekend. For NASA, it marks the long-awaited start of regular crew rotations at the International Space Station, with private companies providing the lifts. Continue reading
Aug 04 WATCH: NASA Astronauts Hurley and Behnken discuss historic SpaceX Dragon test flight By Associated Press Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode the SpaceX Dragon capsule back to Earth less than a day after departing the International Space Station and two months after blasting off from Florida. Continue reading
Aug 02 SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. Continue reading
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