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The body of a missing employee for Elon Musk’s SpaceX washed up on a Texas beach this week, ending a 24-hour search for the man.. Kevin Edward Escobar was last seen on Sunday morning, when he ...
Missing SpaceX employee's body found, identified. Deputies and U.S. Border Patrol Agents retrieved the body at 10 p.m. and positively identified the swimmer, the department said.
The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after lift-off on STS-51-L at an altitude of 15 kilometers (49,000 ft). The investigation found that cold weather conditions caused an O-ring seal to fail, allowing hot gases from the shuttle's solid rocket booster (SRB) to impinge on the external propellant tank and booster strut. The strut ...
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission is about to attempt the first-ever commercial spacewalk.. Four people plan to don new spacesuits and open their Crew Dragon spaceship to the vacuum of space. You can ...
[157] [158] In 2019 SpaceX announced a change to the second stage's design, reducing the number of aft flaps from three to two in order to reduce weight. [159] In March 2020 SpaceX released a Starship Users Guide, in which they stated the payload of Starship to LEO would be in excess of 100 t (220,000 lb), with a payload to GTO of 21 t (46,000 lb).
Stacked atop its booster, the Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's new super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called Starship. The spacecraft is designed to transport both crew and cargo to a variety of destinations, including Earth orbit, the Moon , and Mars.
After the reusable Dragon spacecraft’s first flight, a SpaceX crew retrieved the spaceship from the ocean in December of that year. According to Berger, workers immediately checked for fuel leaks .
MV Megan, formerly known as MV GO Searcher, is one of SpaceX's two Dragon capsule recovery vessels. Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's faring recovery vessels and Elon Musk's private jet), this vessel, along with its sister ship, MV Shannon, are converted platform supply vessels now equipped to retrieve Crew and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown.