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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

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SpaceX launches Crew Dragon test flight to prove it can fly humans safely

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  1. 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

  2. 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 in 2002, likewise expressed gratitude toward the dispatch group and noticed a few extra achievements on the week-long mission, incorporating docking with the circling station and after that restoring the case to Earth. "The present fruitful dispatch denotes another section in American magnificence, getting us closer to by and by flying American Astronauts on American rockets from American soil," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a tweet. "Congrats to SpaceX and NASA groups for this real achievement in our country's history." Musk's organization has effectively made a few supply rushes to the circling lab for NASA. Yet, demonstrating that SpaceX can securely fly people is critical to the organization's aspirations for space the travel industry and making a human province on Mars. In spite of the fact that no space travelers were on board this first exhibition flight, the effective dispatch is basic in inducing any cynics and makes ready for SpaceX to dispatch with space explorers when this late spring. Continue Reading

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