CAP Squadron 80 Aerospace Education

This site is intended as a log of Aerospace Education activity in the Civil Air Patrol,
California Wing, San Jose Senior Squadron 80. As such, it will probably be of limited
interest to anyone outside of that organization (and even to many within it), but feel
free to poke around anyway.

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Showing posts with label Dragon 2. Show all posts

15 April 2019

Presentation: April 2019

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 15-Apr-2019
Subject: Crew Dragon
Description: In this month's scintillating presentation, Jeff talked about the project called "Crew Dragon", a NASA-funded project being designed by SpaceX. Crew Dragon is one of two variants of the larger project "Dragon 2", which itself is the successor to the earlier Dragon series of cargo transports by SpaceX. The Crew Dragon variant is designed to carry up to seven astronauts, while the Cargo Dragon variant is exclusively for cargo. A trial run successfully docked with the International Space Station on 8-Mar-2019.

25 January 2016

Aerospace Minute by David

On 25 January, David talked about the Dragon 2 program from SpaceX. SpaceX is a commercial spacecraft company founded by Elan Musk, who also founded eBay and Tesla. The goal of SpaceX is to build reusable commercial spacecraft. The Falcon 9 booster has successfully launched capsules to the ISS and been recovered using rockets to soften the landing. To date, it has not successfully landed on its landing gear, but they are close to making it work. The Dragon 2 will be a manned capsule. It will also be recovered using rockets. Currently, it is undergoing testing tethered to a crane. Tests will culminate with it being dropped from a helicopter and recovered on its landing gear.