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1. SpaceX - Dragon
Link: https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/
Description: Web ResultThe Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from Earth orbit, and beyond. It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station.
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2. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches to International Space Station
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-8-launches-to-international-space-station/
Description: Web ResultMar 3, 2024 · NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission with the company to the space station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick , Michael Barratt , and Jeanette Epps , along with Roscosmos …
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3. SpaceX Dragon splashes down during reentry, Crew-7 returns to …
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/12/spacex-dragon-nasa-reentry/72941154007/
Description: Web ResultMar 12, 2024 · NASA's Crew-7 returns to Earth in SpaceX Dragon from ISS mission 'benefitting humanity' Their return caps a 199-day mission that saw explorers from Russian, Europe, the United States and Japan ...
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4. 4 space station flyers return to Earth with spectacular pre-dawn
Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/space-station-nasa-spacex-crew-dragon-endurance-fliers-return-to-earth-spectacular-pre-dawn-descent/
Description: Web ResultMar 12, 2024 · By William Harwood. Updated on: March 12, 2024 / 9:30 AM EDT / CBS News. Closing out a six-month stay at the International Space Station, a three-man, one-woman crew plunged back to Earth early...
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5. NASA Science to Launch on SpaceX’s Dragon, Soyuz Crew …
Link: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/03/21/nasa-science-to-launch-on-spacexs-dragon-soyuz-crew-launch-update/
Description: Web Result6 days ago · SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will carry more than 6,000 pounds of cargo, including new science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the international crew aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA and its partners will send studies aboard the mission on plant metabolism in space and a set of new …
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6. Crew Dragon Ready for First Launch - NASA
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/crew-dragon-ready-for-first-launch/
Description: Web ResultFeb 28, 2019 · The Crew Dragon will fly in all the way to dock using new sensor systems, new propulsion systems and docking mechanism to attach to station. For Demo-1, Crew Dragon will carry about 400 pounds of crew supplies and equipment to the space station and return some critical research samples to Earth.
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7. NASA and SpaceX Complete Certification of First Human-Rated …
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasa-and-spacex-complete-certification-of-first-human-rated-commercial-space-system/
Description: Web ResultNov 10, 2020 · The Crew Dragon, including the Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, is the first new, crew spacecraft to be NASA-certified for regular flights with astronauts since the space shuttle nearly 40 years ago.
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8. What is the SpaceX Crew Dragon? - BBC
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52840482
Description: Web ResultNov 14, 2020 · SpaceX engineer John Federspiel, says the company had wanted to make Crew Dragon "feel like a 21st Century spaceship". He explains: "Probably one of the biggest features of Dragon are the ...
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9. Live updates: SpaceX Dragon Crew returns to Earth - CNN
Link: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/nasa-spacex-mission/index.html
Description: Web ResultAug 2, 2020 · SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts return to Earth. Jackie Wattles, CNN Business. Updated 8:29 a.m. ET, August 3, 2020. What we covered here. What's happening: NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and...
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10. SpaceX launches first Crew Dragon spacecraft. Here's what that means.
Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/first-spacex-crew-dragon-spacecraft-launches-now-what
Description: Web ResultMar 2, 2019 · The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft sits perched atop a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of its March 2 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph by Joel Kowsky/NASA. SCIENCE....