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That will change this spring which isn’t too far away. > Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial
by aschobel 7y ago
That will change this spring which isn’t too far away.
> Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time as soon as this spring.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/spacex-says-picture-perfect-test-paves-way-for-human-mission-idUSKBN1ZI054 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/...
- blahblahblogger 7y agoUh huh, that article is from 2017 and also says this: > Nearly 45 years after NASA astronauts last embarked on a lunar mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced his company's plans to send two private citizens on a flight around the moon in 2018.
- starik36 7y agoThe flight sending American astronauts into space aboard Falcon 9 + Dragon is scheduled for May. So not long to wait.
- robryan 7y agoThe decided it wasn't worth the effort to do all the additional work to man rate falcon heavy when it would probably be hardly used as they have shifted focus to their bigger starship rocket.