SpaceX Successfully Launches First Crew to Orbit

31. May 2020 · Write a comment · Categories: New Technology, Transportation · Tags: , , ,

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with two NASA astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, aboard the Dragon crew capsule, lifted off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Saturday, May 30, 2020, ushering in a new era of spaceflight.

The two Americans are on the SpaceX test flight to the International Space Station. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts blasted towards orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, the first one for a private company.

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SpaceX’s Most Powerful Rocket will Send NASA Cargo to Future Lunar Space Station

28. March 2020 · Write a comment · Categories: New Technology, Transportation · Tags: , , ,

SpaceX will use Dragon XL, a new variation of cargo spacecraft, to carry supplies to astronauts to NASA’s Gateway space station in orbit around the moon.

On Friday, SpaceX was awarded a big contract, as it was picked by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as the first supplier to bring cargo to NASA’s Gateway station in orbit around the moon.

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