by National Space Society | Mar 10, 2019 | Commercial Space, NASA, Space Development
By George Mancuso After five days in orbit Crew Dragon Demo-1 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and completed a picture-perfect landing with splashdown occurring at approximately 08:45 EST (1345 UTC) on March 8, 2019. The landing took place 230 miles...
by National Space Society | Mar 8, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Development
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President With today’s complete success of the Demonstration Mission-1 uncrewed test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule, it seemed appropriate to provide an additional update to the “SpaceX Triple Trifeta” which was last written about in...
by National Space Society | Mar 4, 2019 | Commercial Space, National Space Society, NSS Press Releases
A historic milestone in commercial space was achieved on March 3 (NSS Press Release Washington DC, March 4, 2019) The National Space Society, America’s leading citizen space advocacy organization, congratulates SpaceX and NASA on successfully docking the Dragon 2...
by National Space Society | Mar 3, 2019 | Commercial Space, NASA, Space Development
By George Mancuso On March 2, 2019 at 02:49:03 Eastern Time (07:49 UTC) a Dragon 2 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket and opened a new era in spaceflight. About 27 hours later the Dragon 2 successfully docked with the...
by National Space Society | Mar 2, 2019 | Commercial Space, NASA
This is an 8-minute video that summarizes the first launch of Dragon 2 and the post-launch press conference featuring SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. There is some great stuff here well worth your time to watch. The ending is very...
by National Space Society | Feb 28, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Business, Space Development
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President The first six satellites of a constellation that could number up 2,000 rocketed to orbit February 27th on a Soyuz launched by Arianespace from French Guiana. OneWeb, founded in 2012, plans a low-cost global internet...
by National Space Society | Feb 22, 2019 | Commercial Space, Moon, Space Development
Image: Artist concept of the Beresheet lander on the Moon. Credit: SpaceIL. By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President Rather than repeating the facts about this launch, which you can easily find on other sources on the net, I would like to emphasize the “firsts”...
by National Space Society | Feb 22, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
Image: VSS Unity in space with wings feathered, February 22, 2019. Image courtesy of Virgin Galactic. By Bob Brodbeck This morning Friday February 22nd Virgin Galactic’s piloted space plane VSS Unity (a.k.a. SpaceShipTwo) reached the black skies of space for the...
