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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX Crew-8 is the eighth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Serial C206
Launch Crew Count 4
Status Active
Landing Time On-Going
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1981-12-07
Status Active
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1959-04-16
Status Active
Type Government
Nationality Russian
Date Of Birth 1982-07-15
Status In-Training
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1970-11-03
Status Active
Type Government
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 311
Consecutive Success 14
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1083
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 3
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T04:12:31+0000
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T03:53:52+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T03:42:03+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T02:55:11+0000
Updated launch weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T01:14:15+0000
Updated launch weather.
LL2
2024-03-03T23:44:29+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-03T00:54:49+0000
Scrubbed due to ascent corridor high winds.
LL2
2024-03-03T00:11:57+0000
Livestream has started
hitura-nobad
2024-02-29T06:00:17+0000
Delayed to March 3rd (UTC) due to unfavorable ascent corridor weather
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-28T17:30:56+0000
Updated launch weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-28T03:38:31+0000
Updated launch weather.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-15T17:59:45+0000
NET March 1st due to launch pad availability.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-13T14:12:07+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Nosu
2024-02-12T08:24:06+0000
Delayed to NET February 28
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-08T16:17:54+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Nosu
2024-01-27T08:59:44+0000
Adding approximate launch time on February 22
Nosu
2024-01-26T07:42:29+0000
Targeting February 22 if the IM-1 launch is delayed, or February 29 if it launches on time.
Nosu
2024-01-24T12:09:37+0000
NET February 18, pending completion of the pad conversion work after the Nova-C IM-1 launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-15T00:04:03+0000
NET February 2024
The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is a human spaceflight program operated by NASA, in association with American aerospace manufacturers Boeing and SpaceX. The program conducts rotations between the expeditions of the International Space Station program, transporting crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules, in the first crewed orbital spaceflights operated by private companies.
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.
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Crew-8 astronauts will relocate the Crew Dragon spacecraft from the forward port of the Harmony module to its zenith port.
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The Crew-8 Crew Dragon will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station.
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NASA will host a crew news conferences for the upcoming Crew-8 and Soyuz MS-25 missions. The Crew-8 mission will transport four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). Three NASA astronauts, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and one Roscosmos cosmonaut, Alexander Grebenkin, have been assigned to the mission. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, scheduled to launch to the space station on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March will also take part in the conference.
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NASA will host a Mission Overview News Conference for Crew-8. Participants include: - Ken Bowersox, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA - Steve Stich, Commercial Crew Program, NASA - Joel Montalbano, International Space Station Program, NASA - Sarah Walker, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX - Sergei Krikalev, Human Space Flight Programs, Roscosmos
2024-03-04T22:30:00+0000
Space Scout
2024-03-04T06:29:13+0000
SpacePolicyOnline.com
2024-03-04T04:29:16+0000
SpaceNews
2024-03-02T21:09:02+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-03-02T00:10:33+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-02-27T16:00:00+0000
Space Scout
2024-02-26T13:11:36+0000
SpaceNews
2024-02-15T21:03:40+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-08-04T16:44:36+0000
The Launch Pad
2023-08-04T16:22:00+0000
NASA
2023-03-05T01:07:55+0000
SpaceNews
2022-03-03T10:44:06+0000
SpaceNews
2022-03-01T12:14:07+0000
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