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Report: NASA Expects Crewed SpaceX Dragon Craft to Return Aug. 2
The two NASA astronauts that flew on SpaceX's first crewed mission with the Crew Dragon spaceship could return to Earth by Aug. 2 after a two-month stay at the International Space Station, Reuters reported Saturday. The splashdown of NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will take place in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Space Station Astronauts Continue to Test SpaceX’s Crew Dragon
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been conducting tests to evaluate the performance of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship that launched three weeks ago as part of the first manned mission from U.S. soil to the orbiting laboratory in nearly a decade, Teslarati reported Friday.
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SpaceX to Use Previously Flown Crew Dragon, Boosters Under NASA Contract Modification
SpaceX will reuse the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stages and Crew Dragon spacecraft for missions to the International Space Station as early as 2021 under a modification to the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract with NASA, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
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SpaceX Deploys 58 More Broadband Satellites to Orbit for First Starlink Rideshare Mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Saturday to bring another batch of Starlink broadband satellites and three Earth-observing satellites from Planet Labs to low-Earth orbit as part of a rideshare mission, CNET reported Sunday.
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NASA, SpaceX Reschedule Demo-2 Crewed Mission Launch to Saturday
NASA and SpaceX have pushed back to Saturday, May 30, the launch of the manned Demo-2 test flight mission due to unfavorable weather conditions.
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Northrop-Made Cygnus Spacecraft to Deploy for Space Experiments
The International Space Station sent a Northrop Grumman-made Cygnus NG-13 spacecraft out for missions to test satellites and conduct an experiment on space fire safety, Space.com reported Monday.
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Jacobs Receives $478M Extension on NASA JETS Contract to Provide Critical Support to JSC; Steve Arnette Quoted
Jacobs has secured a potential $478.4M extension to the Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science contract at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, bringing the total contract value to over $1.9B, the company reported on Wednesday.Â
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SpaceX Concludes Parachute System Testing for Crew Dragon’s Flight to ISS
SpaceX has completed final testing of its updated parachute system for the Crew Dragon capsule ahead of the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station, Space.com reported Saturday.