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Jul 29, 2020

SpaceX, NASA watch weather for historic astronaut splashdown on Sunday

Posted by in categories: climatology, space travel

SpaceX is ready to return its first NASA astronaut crew to Earth, but a potential tropical cyclone brewing in the Atlantic could cause delays.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 2). Its crew, NASA’s Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, is wrapping up a historic two-month test flight, the first orbital trip by astronauts on a commercial spacecraft. Their splashdown will also mark the first water landing by American astronauts since the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975.

Jul 29, 2020

NASA announces astronauts to launch on SpaceX’s Crew-2 Dragon in 2021

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission for NASA has its astronauts.

NASA and its international partners have officially assigned the astronauts to fly on SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission in spring of 2021, the U.S. space agency announced today (July 28). The mission will be SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station, following the upcoming Crew-1 astrononaut mission, which is slated to launch in September.

Jul 29, 2020

No Phones in Space: Virgin Galactic Designs Cabin to Keep Passengers in the Moment

Posted by in category: space travel

Space tourists won’t be able to take their phones aboard, but the spaceship includes a giant mirror so they can watch themselves float around and 16 cameras in the cabin to catch all the action.

Jul 29, 2020

Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo cabin interior

Posted by in category: space travel

Virgin Galactic, a British aerospace and space travel company within the Virgin Group, today revealed the cabin interior of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity in a virtual event streamed live on YouTube.

Jul 29, 2020

Could We Achieve Interstellar Travel Using Only Known Physics?

Posted by in categories: physics, space travel

How possible?


It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream.

Jul 28, 2020

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Cabin Design Reveal

Posted by in category: space travel

Join a virtual walkthrough of SpaceShipTwo Unity’s cabin, curated by our design team.

Want to fly to space with us? Join our community of Spacefarers to take One Small Step towards reserving your seat on our flights. More info; https://virgingalactic.com/smallstep/

Jul 28, 2020

Take a first look inside Virgin Galactic’s spaceship cabin for tourists

Posted by in category: space travel

Virgin Galactic is giving its customers a first look inside the cabin that will carry them to the edge of space and back, as the space tourism company gets closer to finishing development of its spacecraft.

“Every seat is a window seat,” Virgin Galactic design director Jeremy Brown told CNBC about the interior.

The cabin’s design is the central piece of the company’s product, especially due to the variety of stages during a Virgin Galactic spaceflight. In all, a trip will last about 90 minutes from takeoff to landing. But that will include taking off from a runway under the power of a jet-powered carrier aircraft, a brief free-fall after the spacecraft is released from under the aircraft at about 50,000 feet altitude, a rocket-powered burst of acceleration skyward hitting more than three times the speed of sound and then a few minutes floating weightless in micro-gravity at the edge of space.

Jul 28, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2: How to watch NASA astronauts return to Earth

Posted by in categories: habitats, space travel

https://youtube.com/watch?v=K0yNvk8JV-8

Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history getting to the space station. Now they’re coming home.

Jul 27, 2020

NASA, SpaceX preparing to bring Crew Dragon home this week

Posted by in category: space travel

So far, this test flight has been a great success.

Jul 26, 2020

Tesla Van With Camping & SpaceX Packages Brings It All Together — Could It Replace Your Home?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

After Elon Musk mentioned that Tesla was working on a couple more vehicles, a compact car and “high capacity” vehicle, my mind started to race about how this van-like vehicle could use all of the technologies that Elon has mentioned in various interviews. First, let’s cover the basics that I’m 99% sure the vehicle will have. I got some of these ideas from one of my Cybertruck articles. After that, I’ll take things in a little different direction than our previous “Tesla Cybervan” article.