18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... upgraded parachute system during Crew Dragon’s in-flight abort test Additionally, SpaceX and NASA have jointly executed a... demonstration of pad rescue operations, and a fully integrated test of critical crew flight hardware on the Demo-2 Crew Dragon...
01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
... is concerned, the museum also displays the Mercury 14 capsule (used to test the launch escape system), a Gemini boilerplate drop-test vehicle and the Orion PA-1 pad abort test capsule, built at Langley and launched from White Sands in 2010...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... as well as introduce its Falcon Heavy rocket and complete a test of its commercial crew vehicle. This was stated by the company... 2017. Shotwell said the company is planning an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft before the end of this ...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
... to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft completed a successful pad abort test earlier this week and it is due to participate in an upcoming Orbital Flight Test to the ISS later next month. One potential fly in the ointment as far...
