If that holds up, the Crew Dragon capsule, perched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, would blast off from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center around 5:47 a.m. EDT on October 23, although sources say the flight could slip a few more days when all is said and done. It shows the aurora australis and a starry sky with Russia's Progress 74 resupply ship in the foreground. On July 21, Hurley tweeted: "Two of the best ever Spacewalkers, each on their 10th EVA today. NASA's decision not to create its own replacement for the Shuttle — but to contract that task out to commercial companies — was hugely controversial in the early 2010s. SpaceX's success is a major win for NASA, which has been pushing for more commercial partnerships and can use this program's success as evidence that it's an effective contracting method. Left to right: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, pilot Victor Glover, commander Michael Hopkins and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. NASA tapped SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 to build vehicles capable of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station. What Will Happen to Earth in One Billion Years? The Crew-1 astronauts are overjoyed to announce the name of the @SpaceX … © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. The station has two docking ports for both SpaceX and Boeing and it's not yet clear how the Boeing test flights will merge into the already planned SpaceX traffic. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. All rights reserved. "Earth Art, southwest Libya," Hurley tweeted on June 29. SpaceX shared an inside look at the spacesuit design in a video released Monday that offers some insight into one of the most visible parts of the Crew Dragon mission. On Sunday, Walker, the NASA astronaut who will fly on Demo-1, said she and her crew became emotional watching the splashdown from Houston. That trip will include Megan McArthur — Behnken's wife and fellow astronaut — along with NASA's Shane Kimbrough, Akihiko Hoshide with Japan's JAXA space agency and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. About a month before they depart, NASA and SpaceX plan to launch another Crew Dragon — Crew 2 — with another three-man, one-woman crew that includes Behnken's wife, astronaut Megan McArthur. On June 29, Hurley shared this image showing the "Los Angeles Basin, where @SpaceX headquarters is located and where Dragon #Endeavour was built. The Next SpaceX Launch Will Carry Deadly Bacteria. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates. Now that the test mission has ended—and has largely been hailed as a success—NASA and SpaceX are busily planning for the next mission: Crew-1. Disclaimer. On June 28, Behnken shared one of his "favorite views of our planet that capture the boundary between night and day.". "First moments of sunrise from @Space_Station" as seen by Behnken on July 27. plunged back through the Earth's thick atmosphere, SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts return to Earth. NASA managers initially targeted late September for the Crew 1 launch, but decided to move it after the Oct. 14 launch of two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut aboard the Soyuz MS-17/63S spacecraft. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. ", Behnken also thanked the leaders of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, including. How would everything fit? Nineteen hours after a spectacular Florida launch, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule caught up … "We took advantage of having the vehicle there for 60 days and that'll help make a better vehicle in the sense of operations for Crew-1 and Crew-2," Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's ISS Program, said during a post-splashdown briefing on Sunday. This content is imported from Twitter. This time, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur—who also happens to be Behnken's wife—will be joined by JAXA astronaut Akihito Hoshide and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The men sat to address the public during a media event streamed on NASA TV: "We're not gonna stand right now," Hurley told an audience at a landing strip near Johnson Space Center. "Mauritania on the Atlantic coast of Africa has stunning reds that always have me reaching for a camera," Behnken tweeted on July 22. This content is imported from {embed-name}. The Crew-1 mission launch is currently scheduled for late September. Stars, cities, spaceships, and a comet!" Election Day could turn into "Election Week" with rise in mail ballots. Battleground Tracker: Biden leads in Wisconsin, has edge in Arizona, A behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots are processed. The Crew-1 capsule, which has been undergoing a series of tests at Hawthorne, will ship out to Florida either this week or sometime next week. Think space is amazing? "We're very excited that [the Demo-2 mission] went as smoothly as it did because it really points to the success of how our mission will be when we get a chance to launch.". It was a beautiful day to see the Great Lakes and my childhood home in upstate New York," Hurley wrote on June 13. Sri Lanka and the brightly lit southern tip of India are shown in this photograph from the International Space Station on July 24. NASA officials said the fumes were not potent enough to be harmful to humans, but it sparked concerns about how and why privately owned watercraft were able to gain such close proximity to a sensitive astronaut recovery effort. The $2.6 billion contract SpaceX signed with NASA in 2014 stipulates that the company will fly a total of six missions to the International Space Station (ISS). "This light blue ocean swirl caught my eye as we flew over the South Pacific," Hurley tweeted on June 15. August 14, 2020 / 4:04 PM The Crew-1 spacecraft is in production and astronaut training is well underway pic.twitter.com/SVMQMkK6AB. Boeing, a longtime NASA partner that has worked on numerous human spaceflight programs, recently suffered a significant setback when a Starliner capsule. 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"For those of you who have done this before," he said, referring to the arduous trip home from space, "you know, it's not pleasant standing for a few hours after you get back. How do I vote in my state in the 2020 election? Watch what happened, No, this isn't a flying grain silo.