Sentences with phrase «first crewed flight»

Right now, SpaceX is planning to make an uncrewed flight of its crew - carrying Dragon spacecraft to the space station this year, and its first crewed flights are expected to happen in mid-2018, according to Musk.

Will you be on the first crewed flight?

The first crewed flight for SLS and Orion would be in 2021 or 2022 as part of this mission, which the agency sees as a step towards a human mission to Mars in the 2030s.

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

«This budget funds all elements of that stepping - stone approach, and increases funding for space technology efforts that will support the first crewed flight of SLS to an asteroid,» Bolden said during a teleconference about the budget on 4 March.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

I was a member of the first crewed flight around the moon.

However, industry experts predict that Chinese technical advances — coupled with Russian expertise — will help to rapidly clear up the Long March's service record, enabling the first crewed flights around the year 2000.

«Not only does this test mark an important step towards proving our existing design for SLS's first flight,» said Steve Wofford, engines manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the SLS Program is managed for the agency, «but it's also a great feeling that this engine that has carried so many astronauts into space before is being prepared to take astronauts to space once again on SLS's first crewed flight.»

Ferguson discussed the first crewed flight in the context of Starliner's other testing, which must be extensive to meet NASA's human - rating requirements.

NASA has approved Boeing's CST - 100 to carry out its first crewed flight to the International Space Station.

It appears at this time that Boeing's CST - 100 Starliner will not be able to carry out its first crewed flight until February 2018 at the earliest.

Musk said tonight that SpaceX has no astronauts and the first crewed flight would be with NASA astronauts only.

SpaceX's first crewed flight, according to a report appearing on Yahoo News is slated for December 2018.

When asked when the first crewed flight would take place, therefore, Musk said that was NASA's call since it is the customer.

With the timeline for the first operational human flights for the Commercial Crew Program gradually slipping to the right and into 2019, Boeing last year proposed adding a third crew member to the first Crew Flight Test of the company's CST - 100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, NASA recently announced.

As Space News reported earlier this year, the CST - 100's first crewed flight is currently slated to take place in 2018.

Volocopter's prototype VC200 took its first crewed flight last year.

But the Commercial Crew program has suffered numerous setbacks, and now, both companies are scheduled to do their first crewed flight tests later this year.

Boeing's first crewed flight to the International Space Station may last a lot longer than originally planned — and the mission may have an extra crew member along for the ride, too.

Relying on just one platform risks delaying the first crewed flight of the SLS.

The company's Volocopter VC200, a 18 - rotor drone - helicopter hybrid, took its first crewed flight last year.

Two US astronauts, Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev will be making the voyage, taking off in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan in the first crewed flight of 2018.