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After five days in orbit, the Polaris Dawn mission, which conducted the world’s first commercial spacewalk, has returned safely to Earth. At 3:36 am EDT, the Dragon capsule Resilience splashed down off the coast of the Dry Tortugas, Florida.Continue Re… Continue reading Watch: Polaris Dawn splashes down after historic spacewalk mission
The world’s first private spacewalk has been completed. On September 12, 2024 at 7:58 am EDT, two of the four-person crew of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Resilience returned after a 106-minute tethered EVA 732 km (455 miles) above the Earth.Continue Re… Continue reading Watch: World’s first private spacewalk
Having completed its first day in orbit, the Polaris Dawn mission is preparing to make the first private spacewalk in history. Two astronauts are scheduled to exit the Dragon spacecraft Resilience at 2:23 am EDT and here’s how to watch.Continue Reading… Continue reading Polaris Dawn prepares for first private spacewalk: How to watch
Having completed its first day in orbit, the Polaris Dawn mission is preparing to make the first private spacewalk in history. Two astronauts are scheduled to exit the Dragon spacecraft Resilience at 2:23 am EDT and here’s how to watch.Continue Reading… Continue reading Polaris Dawn prepares for first private spacewalk: How to watch
The most ambitious private space mission yet, which will see the first private spacewalk, has lifted off. At 5:23 am EDT, the Polaris Dawn mission rose from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket for low-Ear… Continue reading First private spacewalk mission blasts into orbit
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the first of his company’s Starship spacecraft will set off for Mars in two years and the first crewed missions will follow in 2028. He sees this as part of his plan to make humanity an interplanetary species.Continue… Continue reading Elon Musk plans to send first Starships to Mars in 2026
Why is it always a helium leak? It seems whenever there’s a scrubbed launch or a narrowly averted disaster, space exploration just can’t get past the problems of helium plumbing. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024
In a show of how far things have come in a few short years, the FAA has grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket after one failed during a powered landing attempt on August 28, 2024 after the successful launch of 21 Starlink satellites. It’s the first unsucce… Continue reading SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded by FAA after botched landing
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn, the first private space mission to include a spacewalk, is scheduled to lift off on Wednesday, August 28 at 3:38 am EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Here’s how to watch.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading How to watch: Launch of the first private spacewalk mission
In a red-faced turn of events, NASA has announced that the two Starliner astronauts “not stranded” on the International Space Station (ISS) will be returning to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which is only the start of the problems.Continue R… Continue reading Official: Starliner crew to hitch ride home on SpaceX Dragon next year