GAO – Spaceflight Now

September 8, 2024

Breaking News

[ September 7, 2024 ] Starliner lands safely in New Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] As it happened: Boeing’s Starliner returned to Earth, marking the end of the Crew Flight Test mission Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on national security mission for the NRO Falcon 9
[ September 4, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 7,000th Starlink satellite to date on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ September 3, 2024 ] ESA completes swan song of its Vega rocket with Sentinel-2C launch Mission Reports

SpaceX’s first space-worthy Crew Dragon capsule arrives at Cape Canaveral

July 14, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon spacecraft, a capsule designed to eventually carry astronauts on treks to the International Space Station, has arrived at Cape Canaveral to begin preparations for launch on an unpiloted test flight later this year.

GAO reaffirms NASA’s commercial crew decision

January 6, 2015 Stephen Clark

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest filed by Sierra Nevada Corp. challenging NASA’s selection of competitors Boeing and SpaceX to build commercial human-rated space capsules to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.