The temperatures will remain in the 30s on Thursday but will feel that way, the agency forecasts, as significantly less humidity is expected. "Humidex values in the mid to upper thirties are also expected", reads the Environment Canada Warning. [Full Article...]
Astronauts that will be ready 3 hours before the flight will enter the capsule 2.5 hours before launch. Since 2011, Nasa has had to rely on the Russian space program to ferry crew for months-long missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS), purchasing seats on ageing Soyuz spaceships for up to $85m apiece. [Full Article...]
SpaceX has a split-second launch window". A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station . [Full Article...]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that he's "redirected SpaceX's priorities" to be nearly entirely focused on Crew Dragon's imminent astronaut launch debut, delaying Starship's own hop test debut by at least a week or two as a result. The Crew Dragon managed to dock with the International Space Station in March previous year, although a follow-up test flight in April failed to get off the ground due to... [Full Article...]
According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kathy Leuders during a press conference on Monday, everything went well with all pre-launch flight checks thus far, including a full-length static test fire of the Falcon 9's engines, and a dress rehearsal of all launch preparation including strapping Hurley and Behnken into the rocket. [Full Article...]
Between Africa and South America, an enormous region has been observed where the intensity of the magnetic field has been at a minimum for the last five years. Although magnetic field reversals don't usually happen overnight, concerns have mounted over how the main consequences could be avoided, or at least, promptly fixed. [Full Article...]
But if they can't do it at home, they need to get to NASA's Astronaut Quarantine Facility at Johnson Space Center. Fortunately, the upcoming SpaceX Demo-2 mission will be crewed by NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who are trained experts at this whole complicated docking thing. [Full Article...]
SpaceX finally came out on top with its cheaper Falcon 9 rocket, the first stage of which comes back to land vertically on a barge in the Atlantic. The trajectory it will follow will bring it down to an autonomous drone ship called "Of course I still love you" - famous in its own right for being witness to nearly all of SpaceX's successful and failed flight trials. [Full Article...]
The temperatures will remain in the 30s on Thursday but will feel that way, the agency forecasts, as significantly less humidity is expected. "Humidex values in the mid to upper thirties are also expected", reads the Environment Canada Warning. [Full Article...]
Astronauts that will be ready 3 hours before the flight will enter the capsule 2.5 hours before launch. Since 2011, Nasa has had to rely on the Russian space program to ferry crew for months-long missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS), purchasing seats on ageing Soyuz spaceships for up to $85m apiece. [Full Article...]
SpaceX has a split-second launch window". A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station . [Full Article...]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that he's "redirected SpaceX's priorities" to be nearly entirely focused on Crew Dragon's imminent astronaut launch debut, delaying Starship's own hop test debut by at least a week or two as a result. The Crew Dragon managed to dock with the International Space Station in March previous year, although a follow-up test flight in April failed to get off the ground due to... [Full Article...]
According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kathy Leuders during a press conference on Monday, everything went well with all pre-launch flight checks thus far, including a full-length static test fire of the Falcon 9's engines, and a dress rehearsal of all launch preparation including strapping Hurley and Behnken into the rocket. [Full Article...]
Between Africa and South America, an enormous region has been observed where the intensity of the magnetic field has been at a minimum for the last five years. Although magnetic field reversals don't usually happen overnight, concerns have mounted over how the main consequences could be avoided, or at least, promptly fixed. [Full Article...]
But if they can't do it at home, they need to get to NASA's Astronaut Quarantine Facility at Johnson Space Center. Fortunately, the upcoming SpaceX Demo-2 mission will be crewed by NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who are trained experts at this whole complicated docking thing. [Full Article...]
SpaceX finally came out on top with its cheaper Falcon 9 rocket, the first stage of which comes back to land vertically on a barge in the Atlantic. The trajectory it will follow will bring it down to an autonomous drone ship called "Of course I still love you" - famous in its own right for being witness to nearly all of SpaceX's successful and failed flight trials. [Full Article...]