Spacecraft

The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 197…

The Apollo Lunar Module was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface during the United States’ Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to operat…

In terms of its role, the ATV was designed to complement the smaller Russian Progress spacecraft, possessing three times its useful payload capacity. Similar to the Progress, it would carry both bulk …

The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union as a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space explor…

Cargo Dragon 2 is a autonomous spaceship capable of bringing science to and from the International Space Station with large pressurized and un-pressurized sections to support a variety of missions….

The Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft is the first Chinese reusable spacecraft….

It was launched on the first 6 flights of the New Shepard….

It is deisgned to spearate from the launcher stage below the Karman line and pursue a ballistic free flight above it before landing….

Crew Dragon 2 is capable of lifting four astronauts, or a combination of crew and cargo to and from low Earth orbit. Its heat shield is designed to withstand Earth re-entry velocities from Lunar and M…

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner (Crew Space Transportation) crew capsule is a spacecraft design under construction by Boeing as their entry for NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program. Its primary pur…

The Cygnus spacecraft is launched aboard Antares, Atlas V, or Falcon 9 to deliver cargo to the ISS under NASAs CRS contracts. It has no heatshield so at the end of its mission its used to dispose of w…

The Cygnus spacecraft is launched aboard Antares or the Atlas V to deliver cargo to the ISS under NASAs CRS contracts. It has no heatshield so at the end of its mission its used to dispose of waste by…

The Cygnus spacecraft is launched aboard Antares to deliver cargo to the ISS and commercial space stations. It has no heatshield so at the end of its mission its used to dispose of waste by burning up…

The Dragon spacecraft consists of a nose-cone cap, a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule, and an unpressurized cargo-carrier trunk equipped with two solar arrays. Dragon was launched into orbit …

The cargo Dream Chaser will resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. It will be launched vertically on the Vulcan Centaur rocket, and autonomously land h…