SpaceX has started preparations for the uncrewed test flight of its new Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled for mid-January, Space.com reported Sunday. The company in the past week transferred... Read more
Boeing and SpaceX executives have said they believe their commercial space vehicles can meet NASA’s “loss-of-crew” requirement and other safety thresholds, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. John... Read more
NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX collaborate to finalize launch day operations for the planned April 2019 test flight of a company-built spaceship built to transport astronauts to the Inter... Read more
NASA has named nine U.S. astronauts who will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxis as part of the first crewed flight test and mission to the Internation... Read more
Janet Kavandi, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, has said a SpaceX-built spacecraft has left the agency’s Ohio-based Plum Brook Station for Florida following the completion of a seri... Read more
Lisa Colloredo, deputy program manager for NASA’s commercial crew program, has said Boeing and SpaceX should be able to meet the agency’s safety requirements as they prepare to enter the fli... Read more
NASA on Thursday released schedules of crewed and unmanned test flights of space vehicles from Boeing and SpaceX as part of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts the agency... Read more
NASA officials have said the agency does not have plans to extend its contract with the Russian space agency to transport U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in 2019 through t... Read more
Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs at NASA’s space technology mission directorate, has said SpaceX proposed to invest 10 times the funds NASA plans to allocate for an un... Read more
An uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch to the International Space Station on July 18 or onward to carry out a cargo resupply services mission. NASA said Wednesday the company... Read more
Four NASA astronauts have begun to work with Boeing and SpaceX to assess spacecraft control systems and simulators in preparation for their future International Space Station missions as par... Read more
Boeing has received its second task order from NASA to transport crews and their cargo to the International Space Station under the company’s potential $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transport... Read more
SpaceX has secured a task order from NASA to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station in 2017 under a potential $2.6 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability... Read more
Boeing aims to send its crew capsule to space with a NASA astronaut and a Boeing test pilot for a first manned test flight in July 2017. NASA said Monday that Boeing and SpaceX executives ha... Read more
SpaceX, NASA Delay Demo-1 Test Flight to February at the Earliest
The SpaceX Demo-1 uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station has been pushed back once again to make room for additional hardware testing and reviews. NASA and SpaceX have yet t... Read more