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As a follow-on to the Viking-based concept, NASA considered a 1986 proposal by General Electric and NIS Space Ltd. for a commercially developed derivative of the U.S. Air Force blunt body Discoverer-type recovery capsule called MOSES, already designed for classified military projects, and initially were planned for up to four occupants, but the ...
Pages in category "Space capsule recovery ships" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Three Mercury flights later, Astronaut Wally Schirra manually blew Sigma 7 ' s hatch after recovery when his spacecraft was on the deck of the recovery ship, in a deliberate attempt to dispel the rumor that Grissom might have blown the capsule's hatch deliberately. As anticipated, the kickback from the manual trigger left Schirra with a visible ...
NASA said that if people encounter what they suspect is SpaceX debris, they can contact the company’s debris hotline (1-866-623-0234 or recovery@spacex.com). A Crew Dragon capsule — with its ...
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 fairing 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.
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials ...
Two Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialists transfer NASA's OSIRIS-REx return capsule for transportation to NASA's Johnson Space Center. NASA/Keegan Barber On September 24, a capsule containing a ...
At the request of NASA, both the crew and cargo variations of the Dragon 2 capsule splash down off the coast of Florida, either in the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The early design concept for Orion (then known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle ) featured recovery on land using a combination of parachutes and airbags ...