If all goes well, the newest Dragon also will parachute down off the California coast, returning experiments and equipment two weeks after reaching the space station.īoth NASA and SpaceX stress this is a test flight, with the main objective being to learn. What was remarkable was the safe recovery of that capsule following its brief solo flight around the world it splashed into the Pacific. The company has never gotten down to zero and flown on the first try, Shotwell noted, putting the odds of accomplishing that Saturday - with a scant one-second launch window - at 50-50 or a bit better.Ī Dragon capsule blasted into orbit in December 2010. SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket just twice before, once with a Dragon capsule that reached orbit. It is more cost-effective that way, said NASA's director of commercial spaceflight development, Phil McAlister, and enables the space agency "to take our savings and plow them into" other venues such as interplanetary exploration. Well before Atlantis made the final shuttle flight last July, NASA began handing over space station delivery duties to the private sector. Im Juli 2012 veröffentlichte die NASA ihr erstes Spiel für die Xbox 360. Starts zum Mars sollen mit dem Space Launch System erfolgen Landungen sind vorerst jedoch nicht geplant. Within three or four years, the goal is to have astronauts on board so Americans no longer have to hitch expensive rides on Russian rockets. Im Rahmen des Apollo-Programms landeten am 20. The California-based SpaceX - formed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk - is the first of several competing companies to actually get this close to launching a vessel to the space station. With 135 space shuttle missions over 3 decades, we knew this final NASA space shuttle launch was a historical moment. The annual competition one of NASA’s Artemis. The capsule will perform practice maneuvers around the space station on Monday before NASA gives a "go" for docking on Tuesday. NASA has announced the 69 student teams representing 25 states and Puerto Rico selected to compete in the 2023 Student Launch Challenge. The Dragon capsule atop the rocket contains a half-ton of space station supplies. Forecasters put the odds of good weather at 70 percent. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral at 4:55 a.m. "So yeah, we really respect having the opportunity to attempt this," she said. have sent a spacecraft to the space station, she noted. "There's no question this is a historic flight," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at a news conference Friday.
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