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Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing
Forecasters predict mostly clear skies and light winds at the surface and aloft for Monday's launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, favorable conditions for the booster's liftoff and landing at Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX ‘on track’ to launch astronauts in late 2017
SpaceX is on schedule to fly two NASA astronauts on a test flight to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, but there is a lot of work to do to ensure the company's new Crew Dragon spaceship is up to the task and ready in time, a SpaceX manager said Tuesday.
Cargo-carrying Dragon spaceship returns to Earth
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship departed the International Space Station on Wednesday, fired rocket thrusters to brake out of orbit, and parachuted to a picture-perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with approximately 3,461 pounds of experiment samples and equipment.
Live coverage: Dragon supply ship back on Earth
SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Wednesday at 9:19 a.m. EDT (1319 GMT), concluding the commercial spaceship's eighth visit to the complex. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 2:55 p.m. EDT (1855 GMT).
Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules, replacing a unit lost in a Falcon 9 launch failure last year.
Expandable room installed on space station
The International Space Station's robotic arm, under the control of engineers on Earth, extracted an experimental inflatable habitat from the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday and attached it to the orbiting complex.
VideoDragon arrives at space station with inflatable habitat in tow
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship executed a laser-guided rendezvous with the International Space Station early Sunday, delivering an experimental expandable enclosure for attachment to the complex later this month for tests to verify the inflatable design's suitability for future space habitats.
Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies, crew provisions, new science experiments and an experimental expandable module for the International Space Station arrived Sunday morning for rendezvous, capture and berthing.
Video: Space station’s robot arm captures Dragon cargo ship
The commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo-delivery craft with the experimental BEAM module -- the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module -- arrives at the International Space Station two days after launching from Cape Canaveral.
Photos of the Falcon 9’s Friday afternoon flight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Friday afternoon, sending a Dragon cargo freighter on the way to the International Space Station as the launcher’s first stage booster returned to Earth aboard a floating platform.