SpaceX launches Crew Dragon test flight to prove it can fly humans safely
SpaceX launches Crew Dragon test flight to prove it can fly humans safely In 2014, NASA awarded SpaceX and rival Boeing Co. combined contracts worth up to $6.8 billion to fly US astronauts to the space station SpaceX propelled an unmanned Crew Dragon create from Florida to the International Space Station early Saturday, an achievement for Elon Musk’s objective of empowering people to live on different planets and a major win for NASA ‘s bet of banding together with private industry. Scores of room vacationers accumulated in Florida to watch the 2:49 a.m. dispatch of the Falcon 9 rocket, which went off easily. Group Dragon is in transit to a meeting with the station on Sunday, while SpaceX handled the rocket’s first stage on an automaton dispatch in the sea. “I’m somewhat candidly depleted,” Musk said at a NASA news gathering. “It was excessively unpleasant. Be that as it may, it worked, up until now.” Musk, who established SpaceX...