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Crew-12 Dragon nose cone opened for flight The Crew-12 astronauts are now flying free on their way to the International Space Station, a journey that will take about 34 hours.
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Scattered outside are a few solar panels propped on cinder blocks, a firepit, and the nose cone of a dummy practice bomb dropped sometime during the Forties.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Scattered outside are a few solar panels propped on cinder blocks, a firepit, and the nose cone of a dummy practice bomb dropped sometime during the Forties.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Nose cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nose%20cone. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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