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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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California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed a bill Friday (Sept. 21) to limit liability for private spaceflight companies.
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will make its first contracted supply run for NASA.
SpaceX's robotic Dragon spacecraft will be making the first of 12 contracted cargo missions for NASA.
American Joe Acaba and Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin had spent four months aboard the orbiting lab.
Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin had spent the last four months aboard the orbiting lab.
Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin have spent the last four months aboard the orbiting lab.
SpaceX should make its first contracted supply run to the space station for NASA this October.
NASA hopes to spur development of commercial spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and crew to the space station.
On May 25th, 2012, the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station launched from Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Take a look back at the flight from lift-off to splashdown.
Reaction Engines Ltd. is designing the Skylon space plane.
NanoRacks said they will launch the affected experiments to the space station again.
SpaceX hopes the Dragon spacecraft will be carrying astronauts to low-Earth orbit by 2015.
Mars One plans to raise funds by staging a huge media spectacle.
The commercial space company that recently delivered cargo to the ISS, tested its new Merlin 1D rocket engine, capable of 147,000 pounds of thrust . It was test fired for 185 seconds, the full duration necessary for their Falcon 9 rocket launches.
Charlie Bolden got an up-close look at SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
The space agency is happy to share the spotlight with companies like SpaceX.
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser passed a wide-ranging design review.
A key congressman is no longer insisting that NASA choose one manned private spaceflight provider right away.
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