Nasa announced that they have selected four veteran astronauts for the first commercial crew flights with Boeing’s Orion and SpaceX’s Dragon V2. As Spacex is developing Dragon V in an aggressive pace and Boeing seam to take a lot of more time for there next flight, the first commercial crew flights will most likely default […]
Grapple of Dragon by the ISS crew has been successful. Watch the full video of the event. The coupling maneuver has also been completed successful. Hatch opening will be done over the next day.
Watch Destin Sandlin from Smarter every Day Interview with Scott Kelly about is upcoming one year stay on ISS and Reid Wiseman about orbital mechanics and how the Soyuz, uses some sophisticated maneuvers to catch up with the International Space Station. Particular interesting, is the part where Destin and Reid explain the “Homann Transfer” and […]
Lets take a look at the Dragon V2 flight animation. Despite that it is just a first animation, it’s fun to have a look at it and make some analysis, by comparing it with what we already know from Dragon V1. The first thing that springs to attention is the trunk. It is much longer […]
This video is a timelapse produced from 12.500 images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, during the Blue dot ISS mission. Watch the amazing timelapses of aurora, night skies and the stars clearly showing through Earth’s atmosphere. There aso some really cool shots from the berthing of Dragon and the departure of Cygnus the Orbital science […]
Dragon has successfully been undocked from ISS and is underway to Earth with approximate 1500 Kg of cargo. consisting of scientific experiments and samples, personal crew items and other equipment. At this moment Dragon is the only spacecraft that is able to get back significant amounts of cargo from the ISS to Earth. Dragon safely […]
An other short video by astronaut Reid Wiseman I had to look twice before I found the hidden Dragon. Let me know in a comments, how many times you had to watch the loop before you found Dragon
First thing what smite me when I watched the Falcon CRS-4 launch video that the four legs on the first where missing… For geo stationary missions Falcon needs a lot of fuel and it’s easy to see that there is ample room fuel wish to save enough to get he first stage back to to […]