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posted by martyb on Monday February 10 2020, @10:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the at-long-last dept.

SpaceX’s first astronaut mission could take off in May

SpaceX is getting very close to its goal of flying actual astronauts aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft. After a successful in-flight abort (IFA) test in January, it had basically crossed off all the major milestones needed before flying people, first on a demonstration mission referred to as “Demo-2” by SpaceX and its commercial crew partner NASA.

We now know the working date that SpaceX is aiming for with that crucial mission: May 7. To be clear, that’s very much a working date and the actual mission could slip either later, or even earlier, according to Ars Technica’s Eric Berger who first reported the timeline.

It will be exciting when the United States regains the capability to send humans to orbit and to the ISS.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:13AM (#956694)

    Just his hair. It probably came from there in the first place.

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