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SpaceX, Boeing (and NASA) Push Back 1st Test Launches of Private Spaceships

posted by martyb on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:09PM   Printer-friendly

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SpaceX's new astronaut taxi won't make its inaugural trip to the International Space Station (ISS) this month after all.

SpaceX and Boeing are developing commercial space capsules — called Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner, respectively — to carry NASA astronauts to and from the orbiting lab.

SpaceX had been targeting Feb. 23 for Crew Dragon's shakeout cruise to the ISS, an uncrewed flight called Demo-1. Starliner was scheduled to perform a similar mission in March. But launch dates for both flights have just been pushed to the right, NASA announced today (Feb. 6). [Crew Dragon and Starliner: A Look at the Upcoming Astronaut Taxis]

"The agency now is targeting March 2 for launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon on its uncrewed Demo-1 test flight. Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is targeted for launch no earlier than April," NASA officials wrote in the status update.

Source: https://www.space.com/43250-spacex-boeing-commercial-crew-test-launches-delayed.html

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 07 2019, @10:21PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 07 2019, @10:21PM (#798008) Journal

    People really want to stick it to spacex

    SpaceX doesn't grease all the right palms, because it has cheaper space fright as a goal.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:53PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:53PM (#798069) Journal

    I think that it's more that some people are really irritated with Musk. But you hypothesis is also reasonable.

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