#uncrewed

Boyfriend and I spent the day organizing space mission insignias into a tier-list.

Archive, narration-free video of Apollo 4 - the first test flight of an uncrewed Saturn V rocket. CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite was in attendance for this launch and famously lost his composure with excitement as the rocket shoot the building and blast windows around him.

SpaceX Demo-1 Crew Dragon’s hatch was opened on 3 March 2019, at 13:07 UTC (08:07 EST). The spacecraft autonomously docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony module forward International Docking Adapter (IDA) on 3 March 2019, at 10:51 UTC (05:51 EST). Demo-1 is SpaceX’s first uncrewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the ISS and was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket (Block 5 B1051) from the Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 March 2019, at 07:49 UTC (02:49 EST). The Crew Dragon transports roughly 180 kg (400 pounds) of crew supplies and equipment, as well as an anthropomorphic test device (ATD) fitted with sensors and nicknamed Ripley.

A spaceship, or as the remote drivers insist on calling it, a spaceboat. The proposed Titan Submarine probe.

A tiny probe sub makes first contact under Europa's ice

The reactor section flies away during cargo loading/unloading to protect from radiation

How will astronauts board the SpaceX Crew Dragon? They'll use the Crew Access Arm, which provides a bridge to the spacecraft from the crew access tower at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The Crew Dragon is designed to fly astronauts to the International Space Station on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The first uncrewed flight of the Crew Dragon, known as Demo-1, is scheduled to launch March 2, 2019. The uncrewed flight is an important step in returning human launches on American rockets and spacecraft to the space station from U.S. soil since 2011.