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SpaceX, Dragon Capsule & Falcon 9: Latest News
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is a commercial company aiming to launch cargo, and eventually people, to low-Earth orbit. The firm is developing its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster under contracts from NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program and its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific to cap off a landmark cargo delivery mission.
The unmanned Dragon space capsule is returning hundreds of astronaut blood and urine samples, among other cargo.
The Dragon capsule is packed with nearly 500 vials of astronaut blood and urine, for science of course.
See photos from SpaceX's first resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Dragon is wrapping up the first-ever commercial cargo mission to the space station.
Visiting astronauts will have to take special care not to contaminate the Red Planet.
SpaceX, Sierra Nevada, and Boeing are each making progress toward launching people on private spacecraft.
Orbcomm still plans to launch the rest of its communications constellation aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule, carrying supplies and scientific equipment for the International Space Station (including ice cream for the astronauts), was docked using the station's robotic arm this morning.
The robotic Dragon spacecraft is making the first commercial cargo run to the space station.
Astronauts will snag Dragon at 7:17 a.m. EDT using the station's huge robotic arm.
A glitch with the Falcon 9 rocket caused Orbcomm's prototype OG2 satellite to be placed too low.
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship is on track to arrive at the station Wednesday (Oct. 10).
The anomaly did not significantly affect the flight of SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
In this space wallpaper, Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida comes alive as the Merlin engines ignite under the Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule to orbit on Oct. 7, 2012.
The SpaceX CRS-1 mission to the Space Station launched from Kennedy Space Center on October 7, 2012. The Falcon 9 rocket flawlessly inserted the Dragon capsule into orbit.
See launch photos for SpaceX's landmark launch of a private Dragon cargo mission to the space station.
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket and first commercial Dragon cargo flight to the space station Sunday (Oct. 7).
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