Hoburg told CNN that before reentry, the Dragon capsule’s interior is cooled down. That step, coupled with the protective heat shield on the spacecraft’s exterior, keeps passengers at a normal ...

She joined SpaceX as an intern in 2015, working on human-in-the-loop testing of the Dragon spacecraft’s interior before transitioning full-time into astronaut training after graduation. She received a ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after nine months on board the International Space Station ...

NASA initially announced that the launch had been pushed to late March to give SpaceX more time to prepare a new Dragon capsule for liftoff. However, the launch date was moved back up to mid-March ...

Together, the four spacefarers are set to return this month aboard the Dragon capsule that transported Hague and Gorbunov to the station in September. As the two astronauts selected for the ...

Ultimately NASA decided that Starliner was not safe enough to fly them home and that it would rely on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule instead. The astronauts are now scheduled to return later this month ...

A pod of dolphins formed a welcome party Tuesday for four returning spacefarers aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule that splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.

Image 2 of 2 a white space capsule with metallic bottom trunk in a bright hangar. Enter Endurance, the Dragon that has already flown three SpaceX astronaut missions — Crew-3, Crew-5 and Crew-7.