SpaceX has completed another vital cargo mission to the International Space Station, delivering and retrieving critical ...

From robot arms with gripping tentacles to experimental space materials, Dragon’s latest splashdown brings back tech that ...

Unfavorable weather conditions have delayed the SpaceX Dragon's return to Earth from the International Space Station until at ...

SpaceX's latest Starship ended in disappointment as the spacecraft spun out of control and exploded mid-flight. Despite hopes ...

Early Tuesday morning, the SpaceX Dragon carrying Williams ... To keep the astronauts safe, Dragon employs a heat shield to keep it from burning up during re-entry. The drag helped slow down ...

NASA's Crew-5 mission wrapped up Saturday night in the Gulf of Mexico with the splashdown return of a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying ... the atmosphere, their heat shield enduring temperatures ...

aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule just before 6 ... across the water at a red-hot 400 miles per hour, which set its heat shield aglow in the clear afternoon skies. Moments earlier, it had ...

The Ax-3 astronauts splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule amid calm ... to reach about 3,500 degrees on the capsule's heat shield — with top speeds of 17,500 mph, Anderson said.

If SpaceX should have a problem with its ... the 17-hour flight home appeared flawless. The Dragon capsule’s heat shield withstood temperatures that reached 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Good mains release," Hague radioed SpaceX flight controllers ... to-northeast trajectory, the Crew Dragon reached the discernible atmosphere, enduring heat shield temperatures of more than 2,500 ...

SpaceX removed 2,100 heat-shield tiles to stress the vehicle beyond ... Science News // 1 day ago SpaceX Dragon ISS depature delayed due to weather May 21 (UPI) -- Unfavorable weather conditions ...