Four astronauts have returned home from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, making a splashdown landing aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon ... protected by a heat shield and the ...

A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ... Enduring heat shield temperatures up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, the ...

SpaceX typically removes the Crew Dragon spacecraft's heat shield after each flight and refurbishes the shield's composite structure, adding new ablative thermal protection tiles for each mission.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour pierced the atmosphere at 17,000 mph, its heat shield enduring temperatures hotter than 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the course of an hour, the capsule ...

Twenty-seven minutes later, approaching the Florida Gulf Coast on a southwest-to-northeast trajectory, the Crew Dragon reached the discernible atmosphere, enduring heat shield temperatures of more ...

That’s when crew members started to spot big cracks on Orion’s lower surface, where the capsule’s exterior bonds to its heat shield. But why wouldn’t a shield that has endured temperatures ...

One wrote, "I hope it isn't part of a heat shield or other structural piece ... aged six The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, boasting ...

Dragon commander Nick Hague told the ISS crew, "On behalf of Crew-9 ... To keep the astronauts safe, Dragon employs a heat shield to keep it from burning up during re-entry.

The delay is due to problems with the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Orion is the capsule in which crew members for each mission will travel, and it must withstand temperatures of nearly 5,000 ...

“But on the way down, it’s all the heat shield ... but all four crew members technically took part because the Dragon capsule does not have an airlock. That meant that when the hatch ...

Two long-delayed Starliner astronauts, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams, returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Tuesday, finally closing out a repeatedly extended 286-day ...