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The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Taking flight on Wednesday (June 25) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the capsule ...
SpaceX’s fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft finally made it off the ground on a private astronaut mission for Axiom Space ...
On Wednesday, four space explorers from four countries launched on a brand new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, and as the first "Dragon riders" for this vehicle, the ...
The Dragon capsule currently in orbit has 18 thrusters called Draco (after the constellation for Dragon) for maneuvering in space — a name that happens to be shared by one of the antagonists in ...
The name celebrates the innovation that comes from “the unencumbered human spirit,” hearkening back to Alan Shepard’s 1961 flight into space. The Dragon spacecraft is capable of bringing ...
The space shuttle Endeavour, now on exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, isn’t the only precedent for the Crew Dragon’s new name: Apollo 15’s command module, which went ...
SpaceX's Crew-4 will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in April aboard a Dragon capsule named "Freedom." NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren announced the name on Twitter on Wednesday.
Atlas, Saturn, Delta, Soyuz (which means “union” in Russian), and a host of other space-faring machines have some authoritative names. Then there’s SpaceX.
FREEDOM!! Crew-4 will fly to the International Space Station in a new Dragon capsule named “Freedom.” The name celebrates a fundamental human right, and the industry and innovation that ...
The Crew Dragon capsule that will fly SpaceX's next astronaut mission has arrived at the launch pad. That flight, called Ax-4, is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket on June 10 from ...
Crew Dragon is SpaceX’s first crewed spacecraft, borrowing its design from the Dragon cargo capsule that’s used for resupply services to the ISS.Crew Dragon capsules have taken humans to space ...
The ‘Space Dragons’, named after the UK television show Dragons Den in which entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to potential investors, were officially launched at the virtual Air and Space ...