12 May 2016
Boeing CST-100 Flight Postponed Until 2018
...,” she said. Previously, Boeing had indicated it planned to carry out that initial crewed flight before the end of 2017, although she made no explicit mention of a delay. Caret added that even with ...
20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... by reporters of a potential launch date for OFT-2 Vollmer replied, the “first half of 2022”. If that flight is successful, "we would look at CFT (crewed flight test) maybe by the end of the year," Vollmer said. "We like to see six months in between...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... and landing, an end-to-end demonstration of pad rescue operations, and a fully integrated test of critical crew flight hardware on the Demo-2 Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participating in their Demo...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
..., marking the 52nd anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing on 20 July, Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight of the New Shepard from ‘Launch Site One’ in Van Horn, Texas. Among other things, the pressurised...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...) for six months. Meanwhile, NASA announced it has assigned astronaut Shannon Walker to the first operational crewed flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Walker will join NASA astronauts Michael...
17 January 2020
SpaceX's last critical test before crewed flights begin
... spacecraft will encounter during a normal ascent. SpaceX will then intentionally trigger Crew Dragon to perform the launch escape prior to 1 minute, 30 seconds into flight. Once the launch escape sequence begins, Falcon 9’s first stage Merlin...
