(WTXL) — History could be made right here in the Big Bend this weekend.
For the first time in 45 years, a NASA spacecraft with two American Astronauts on board will splash down off the coast of Florida.
The exact location of where the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will splashdown hasn’t been announced yet.
SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon capsule to carry NASA astronauts will undock from the International Space Station tonight (Aug. 1), setting the stage for a historic weekend splashdown.
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SpaceX is ready to return its first NASA astronaut crew to Earth, but a potential tropical cyclone brewing in the Atlantic could cause delays.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 2). Its crew, NASA’s Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, is wrapping up a historic two-month test flight, the first orbital trip by astronauts on a commercial spacecraft. Their splashdown will also mark the first water landing by American astronauts since the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975.
SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission for NASA has its astronauts.
NASA and its international partners have officially assigned the astronauts to fly on SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission in spring of 2021, the U.S. space agency announced today (July 28). The mission will be SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station, following the upcoming Crew-1 astrononaut mission, which is slated to launch in September.
Virgin Galactic, a British aerospace and space travel company within the Virgin Group, today revealed the cabin interior of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity in a virtual event streamed live on YouTube.
Join a virtual walkthrough of SpaceShipTwo Unity’s cabin, curated by our design team.
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