The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday announced it has contracted SpaceX for an additional five crew transportation missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS). These additional crew flights have been purchased under NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract with SpaceX. SpaceX’s CCtCap contract now comprises a total of […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday announced that it has officially awarded SpaceX three additional crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. The announcement comes almost three months after the agency issued a notice of intent to procure more ISS flights from […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday announced it intends to engage SpaceX for up to three additional crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. The decision comes after NASA issued a request for information to American companies capable of providing safe, reliable, […]
Image credit: SpaceX SpaceX continues to make history with its Dragon capsule, as the latter successfully docked autonomously to the International Space Station at 5:08am EDT, on Saturday, April 24. Dragon was launched into orbit on Friday morning by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster took a day to reach the ISS. “This is the first human […]
SpaceX and NASA’s Crew-2 launch originally planned for Thursday has officially been pushed back, according to a press release from NASA. NASA said Thursday’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would be rescheduled for Friday, April 23 at 5:49 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). The launch will take place at NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
