On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and today NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States. SpaceX and NASA undocked Saturday, August 1 for Crew Dragon from the Space Station, with the two astronauts aboard the spacecraft, and returned to Earth.
Dragon splashed down at a targeted water landing site off the coast of Florida at about 2:42 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 2. The Demo-2 mission is the final major milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. Once the Demo-2 mission is complete, and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for certification, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on Dragon’s first six-month operational mission (Crew-1) targeted for late September.
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No, that are 4posts in a Row. And either Space X or Tesla, Brian does have almost no other content anymore but Elon.
So he is basically s….g his d…k…
1st Statement is therefore verified and proven to be true.
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They abandoned plans for that back in ’17
Russians and Chinese hardest hit.
I see a few SpaceX stories about space craft and space travel. And there were one or two stories on automobile and battery manufacturing by the automotive manufacturer known as Tesla. Worlds apart, literally.
They should call it “el scorcho” instead of dragon. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-el-scorcho-recipe-1946679
Downvote for apparent inability to count to 3. And so what if Brian posts 3, 4, 10 Tesla articles in a row, it’s his blog. Ain’t no one forcing you to read it.
I thought this thing was going to land like the rocket stages instead of using parachutes
Congrats to SpaceX for their work. I like modern spacecraft design.
4 Posts about Tesla, in a row?
You s….k, Brian, like vampires…
Congrats to SpaceX, flawless mission.
Since the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
A happy conclusion for a very successful first mission.
It’s been a lot of time since the USA landed humans in a capsule. Basically since the Apollo/Skylab projects ended, like 45 years ago or so.
The rest between those times and now had returned in the Shuttle, which looks more impressive and superficially advanced (like the spaceplane it was), while being also quite more risky overall.
Looks don’t matter, though. What matters is that every Crew Dragon mission will cost a fraction of a Shuttle mission, will be less risky and also reusable, resulting in more people going and returning to space for the same buck.