Start the countdown. In just two years, SpaceX is blasting off for Mars. Image source: SpaceX.It began with a Tweet. On Wednesday, April 27, SpaceX posted two photos on Twitter, announcing plans to send a Red Dragon space capsule to Mars "as soon as 2018."That, of course, got everyone wondering what the heck a "Red Dragon" was.
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United Launch Alliance sent up the other two rockets: the first Vulcan on its Jan. 8 certification mission and the final Delta IV Heavy on April 9 on the NROL-70 mission.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikini launched at 12:00 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six-month mission ...
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NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface.
06/12/2024 - 7:12 pm | View Website - NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches to International Space Station
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission with the company to the space station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick , Michael Barratt , and Jeanette Epps , along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, for a science ...
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All four crews will receive combined commercial astronaut training from NASA and SpaceX, with SpaceX providing training on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full simulations.
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