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NASA adds 5 companies to moon delivery list
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among five companies that have just been cleared to deliver payloads to the moon for NASA. So is Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is offering its Starship super-rocket for lunar trips. Sierra … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Commercial Spaceflight, Moon, NASA, Sierra Nevada, Space, SpaceX, Starship, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
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Report sharpens debate over spaceship costs
Boeing is in line to get paid substantially more per seat than SpaceX for astronaut trips to the International Space Station, in part because it negotiated an increase in what was meant to be a fixed-cost contract, NASA’s Office of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight, Dragon, International Space Station, NASA, Space, SpaceX, Starliner
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SpaceX Dragon fires up launch abort thrusters
SpaceX went the distance today with a static-fire test of its Crew Dragon space taxi’s launch escape system — the same type of test that ended in a costly explosion when it was conducted in April. A photo released after … Continue reading
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Tagged Commercial Spaceflight, Dragon, International Space Station, Space, SpaceX
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Starliner parachute glitch traced to unsecured pin
For want of a pin, the use of a spaceship’s parachute was lost. That may be a simplistic way to explain why one of the three parachutes on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi failed to open. It does, however, serve … Continue reading
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Tagged Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, Space, Starliner
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NASA ‘thrilled’ with Boeing Starliner pad abort test
Boeing cleared a key milestone for launching NASA astronauts on its CST-100 Starliner space taxi today by executing an end-to-end test of its rocket-powered launch abort system — a test that did what it needed to do even though one … Continue reading
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Virgin Galactic shows off Under Armour spacewear
It’s a bit of a stretch to call them spacesuits, but the “spacewear” clothing line unveiled today by Virgin Galactic and Under Armour looks comfortable enough to wear even if you’re not rocketing to the edge of space. The Under Armour clothing … Continue reading
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Tagged Commercial Spaceflight, Space, Space Tourism, Spacesuits, Under Armour, Virgin Galactic
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NASA confirms plan for Boeing space taxi tests
NASA confirmed today that Boeing is scheduled to conduct the next high-profile test of its CST-100 Starliner space capsule in a little more than three weeks. The target data for Starliner’s pad abort test is set for Nov. 4 at … Continue reading
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Tagged Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight, International Space Station, Space, Starliner
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