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May 5, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon Trunk Secured to Spacecraft for Demo-2

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The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASAfs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASAfs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A is slated for May 27 at 4:32 p.m. EDT.

Demo-2 will serve as an end-to-end test of SpaceX’s crew transportation system, paving the way for NASA to certify the system for regular crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory as a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission will be the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

May 5, 2020

NASA Selects Companies to Develop Human Lunar Landers

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Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will each design and build spacecraft that could return astronauts to the Moon.

May 5, 2020

China just tested a spacecraft that could fly to the moon and beyond

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China is getting ready to build a new space station. On 5 May, the Chinese Long March 5B rocket – the same rocket that is planned to lift parts of a new space station into orbit and eventually carry astronauts to space – launched for the first time from Hainan Island.

For this test flight, the rocket carried with it an unnamed crew capsule. No astronauts were aboard this trip, but according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation it will be able to carry six people at a time, twice as many as the Shenzhou spacecraft that has been used for all the country’s other crewed missions.

After it reached orbit, Long March 5B dropped off the crew spacecraft, which will undergo a few tests in space before plunging back to Earth in the next few days. This re-entry will test the spacecraft’s heat shields, parachutes and airbags. The crew capsule is designed to be reusable and to carry astronauts to the new space station, or to the moon and beyond.

May 5, 2020

Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are making a movie in space, report says

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Ground control to Major Tom Cruise.

May 4, 2020

SpaceX’s futuristic spacesuit will do more than make astronauts look cool

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The company’s crewed mission, set for later this month, will help support missions to Mars.

May 4, 2020

Commercial crew safety, in space and on the ground

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The last time NASA launched astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center, hundreds of thousands of people showed up to watch the final flight of the space shuttle in July 2011. The expectation, by NASA and others, was that similar crowds would show up when commercial crew flights finally began. The large crowds that showed up for launches like the first Falcon Heavy mission in 2018 or even relatively routine cargo launches appeared to confirm that belief, and NASA was planning for big crowds, not just of the public outside the gates of KSC but also official guests and working media inside, for a historic mission.

Then came the pandemic, and all those plans went out the window.

Now NASA is in the unusual, but understandable, position of telling people not to witness in person one of the agency’s biggest missions in the last decade. “We are asking people to watch from home,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Friday in a media teleconference about the upcoming SpaceX Demo-2 commercial crew mission.

May 4, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut says 3 factors need to line up to get to Mars

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Douglas Hurley, along with Bob Behnken, is about to fly to the International Space Station using a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

May 4, 2020

SpaceX Moon Contract Could Be Worth $7 Billion — Or Nothing

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How much is a contract to deliver supplies to an imaginary space station worth?

May 4, 2020

SpaceX Starship: incredible Elon Musk photo shows the rocket’s true size

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The giant ship has been captured in an image that demonstrates the scale of the Mars-bound ship.

May 3, 2020

My hero my love

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How elon saved spacex & tesla … at the same time.