The NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley completed their mission on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship when they landed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. The spaceship’s scorching-hot fall through Earth’s atmosphere, parachute deployments, and splashdown went as planned. From inside the Crew Dragon, Behnken said the return trip […]

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley just completed a test flight of SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spaceship. The Crew Dragon survived a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, deployed its parachutes, and landed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday – a process that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called his […]

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship splashed into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, returning NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from a high-stakes mission to the space station. The demonstration mission resurrected US human spaceflight after a nine-year hiatus. The astronauts were the first people to fly in a commercial […]

SpaceX’s historic first spaceflight with NASA astronauts finished Sunday when the Crew Dragon spaceship splashed down off the coast of Florida. Onlookers in boats made a beeline for the spaceship while it floated in the water. One boat drove close to the spaceship, appearing on NASA’s live feed with a […]

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley just completed a crucial test flight of SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spaceship. The men splashed the space capsule into the Gulf of Mexico at 2:48 p.m. ET off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, following a risky plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. NASA’s administrator said […]

SpaceX has entered the final stage of its historic first flight of people: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are on their way home. Behnken and Hurley boarded the company’s new Crew Dragon spaceship on Saturday, undocked from the International Space Station, and flew away. The crew is now […]

NASA, SpaceX, and two veteran astronauts are about to finish the first-ever crewed commercial spaceflight mission. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley climbed back aboard the Crew Dragon from the International Space Station on Saturday, and they are preparing to weather a fiery fall through Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday afternoon. […]

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley weathered a speedy, scorching-hot fall through Earth’s atmosphere in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship on Sunday. They splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:48 p.m. ET. In May, SpaceX made history by launching them into space aboard Crew Dragon. The ship and […]

NASA has chosen astronaut Megan McArthur to pilot SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station next spring. McArthur’s husband, Bob Behnken, returned to Earth in the spaceship on Sunday. Behnken’s mission has shown that the Crew Dragon can successfully ferry astronauts to and from the space station, thereby […]

After launching two NASA astronauts into orbit in May, SpaceX is now set to bring them back from the International Space Station on August 2 in the same spaceship. Elon Musk has said this stage of the mission worries him most. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon ship will need to undock from […]

NASA operates a fleet of Gulfstream private jets most notably seen when flying astronauts to the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Shuttling astronauts is just one of the missions that the Gulfstream are tasked with as the jets are also used to perform scientific research across the globe. […]

People who fly to space and gaze back at Earth often say they feel a powerful “overview effect.” NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, whom SpaceX just launched into orbit on the rocket company’s first crewed mission, described the feeling in a recent interview from space. “You see that it’s a single […]

SpaceX launched two NASA astronauts – and a sequined dinosaur plushie – into space on Saturday in the first-ever commercial human spaceflight. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley both have young sons who are “super interested in dinosaurs,” Behnken said, so they gathered all the dinosaurs in their houses and […]

SpaceX won a high-stakes game of capture the flag on Sunday after two NASA astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station. President Barack Obama started the competition nine years ago, when his administration funded a public-private partnership program in which NASA would work with companies to send humans […]

SpaceX launched its first astronauts into space on Saturday: NASA’s Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. Behnken and Hurley gave a live tour of the SpaceX spaceship, called Crew Dragon, from orbit. Watch the full video from inside the Crew Dragon capsule below. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. After […]

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley wore new SpaceX spacesuits when they launched toward the International Space Station on Saturday. It was the company’s first time launching people and the first time the spacesuits were worn (by humans) in space. Hurley said the spacesuits were “very comfortable” during a […]

SpaceX on Saturday launched its first humans into space: veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. On Sunday morning, the astronauts caught up to the International Space Station inside their Endeavour spaceship – their new name for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft – and docked it there. The docking marks […]