

NASA astronauts have not launched to the space station from U. The Demo-2 mission will follow a successful unpiloted Crew Dragon test flight in That mission, Demo-1, flew a mannequin named Ripley to the station in a SpaceX spacesuit.

The station crew will perform a series of tests on the Crew Dragon capsule in the weeks that follow, with Behkhen and Hurley ultimately set to return to Earth and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean, just off Florida's eastern coast, and be retrieved by a SpaceX recovery ship. After launch, the Falcon 9's first-stage booster will return to Earth and land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.īehkhen and Hurley will fly on to rendezvous with the space station and join three members of the outpost's current Expedition 63 crew. Liftoff is set for Wednesday, May 27, at p. For more details on the challenge, visit NASA's website here. To enter, kids need to start a mission by completing the Ride to Station app where they'll select a crew, build a rocket and launchthen visit NASA's Crew Orbital Docking Simulation to create a space capsule docking game. The agency's "Ride to Station Challenge" calls on kids to build a virtual version of the mission using the agency's Rocket Science: Ride to Station App. Kerbonauts, we have a mission for you! We challenge you to simulate the mission and share your footage by May 25 using LaunchAmerica. As Private Division stated above, the deadline to enter is May 25 and players should use the hashtag LaunchAmerica to submit their entries. Related: In photos: SpaceX's historic Demo-2 test flight with astronauts. We'll show NASA the best ones to see what they think! See this page for more infoĬommunity Teamspeak Server all, the planned May 27 liftoff will mark the first time American astronauts will launch to the International Space Station from U. Refrain from submitting images that involve real life space disasters that resulted in loss of lifeĭon't post/discuss mirrors or torrents of any version of KSP See the discussion on misc posts for more info No posts unrelated to KSP or memes and image macros. Please remain kind and civil at all times
