SpaceX
The Crew Dragon reported in an update Friday
The spacecraft created the excursion from SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and is now staying processed at enterprise amenities at Cape Canaveral Air Pressure Station. Crew-1 will carry off from NASA’s nearby Kennedy Room Center no earlier than Oct. 23
Relevant: A behind-the-scenes seem at SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule (photos)
The to start with phase of that rocket has been in Florida given that July. The upper stage is at SpaceX’s facility in McGregor, Texas, the place it performed a “static fireplace” exam on Tuesday, NASA officials stated. (Static fires are routine trials in which a rocket fires up when remaining tethered to the ground.)
Crew-1
SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission, its initial totally crewed, fully operational Crew Dragon mission to the Global Area Station, is gearing up to launch no sooner than Oct. 23, 2020. This is the SpaceX Crew-1 formal crew portrait with the complete mission crew. From the still left you can see NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. (Image credit: SpaceX/NASA)
SpaceX now has one crewed mission beneath its belt — the modern Demo-2 exam flight
Like SpaceX, Boeing retains a commercial crew contract with NASA, which the aerospace large will fulfill applying a capsule identified as CST-100 Starliner
Starliner tried out this check flight after just before, in December 2019, but endured a glitch
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