SpaceX : Testing a new era of human space exploration

1 Mar 2019

SpaceX : Testing a new era of human space exploration

SpaceX : Testing a new era of human space explorationElon Musk's company SpaceX aims to fly its first demonstration flight, Crew Dragon capsule, to the NASA International Space Station (ISS) on March 2.

This is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program to develop and fly human space transportation systems.
 	This flight, known as Demo-1, will not have human crew, but a life-size test dummy called Ripley.
 	Ripley, wearing a white SpaceX spacesuit, will be strapped into one of the capsule's seats. Its sensors will record and send information back to the engineering team.
 	The six-day test flight will be real in every way, beginning with a liftoff from Florida, USA on March 2 and a docking with the International Space Station on the next day.
 	NASA doesn't expect this crucial test cruise to go perfectly. But the lessons learned should improve safety when two NASA astronauts strap into a Dragon as early as July.
 	Boeing is also in the race to end NASA's eight-year wait to launch U.S. astronauts on U.S. rockets from U.S. soil. Till now it used Russia's expertise to send astronauts to space.

If all goes well, Crew Dragon will carry astronauts to and from the NASA orbiting lab for the first time this summer.

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