Tag: #SpaceX
Crew Dragon flies!
SpaceX DM-2 mission launched successfully 30 May 2020. If you missed, or want to re-live this historic event, here is a great video:
What to expect from the Crew Dragon mission
Getting closer to launch
NASA and SpaceX yesterday (May 23 2020) completed the final rehearsal for the upcoming first manned launch of the Crew Dragon space craft. NASA Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken went through pre-launch procedures in preparation for the flight scheduled for Wednesday, 27 May 2020.
Weather conditions are a concern for the launch schedule. Alternative launch dates for the mission to the ISS fall on 30 May and 31 May.

Moving closer to the Crew Dragon launch
On 21 May 2020 the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
On 22 May 2020 SpaceX and NASA completed the mission’s flight readiness review, including a static firing of the Falcon 9 first stage engines, as seen below.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The next step is a dry dress rehearsal (rocket does not get fueled) scheduled for 23 May 2020. Launch is currently scheduled for 27 May 2020.
Another important step towards the resumption of U.S. manned spaceflight
Astronauts enter a routine quarantine for historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch

(Image: © SpaceX)
Great space news!
NASA and SpaceX have announced the date for the first manned flight to launch from the U.S. since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.

NASA has not used its iconic “worm” logo on a spacecraft since 1992. But as the above photo shows, the logo is back for this historic launch.
Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX companies helping with the ventilator shortage
First, Tesla is racing to build a ventilator that relies on readily available Tesla car parts – brilliant!
Yesterday ventilator manufacturer Medtronic also tweeted that Musk’s other company SpaceX “is now making a vital component for critical care ventilators,” meaning more of the devices would arrive sooner for COVID-19 patients.
Musk has also donated ventilators that he purchased outright to both California and New York.
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