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SpaceX's First Astronaut Mission Could Take Off in May

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

DannyB writes:

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) by c0lo on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:48AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:48AM (#956703) Journal

    Are they just going to take astronauts up into orbit and land them again?

    That's all it can be said based on the public knowledge.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:13AM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:13AM (#956716) Journal
    Well, I hope that they would bring them back again at some point - it's not Boeing we're talking about here.
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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:25AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:25AM (#956723) Journal

      Well, I hope that they would bring them back again at some point - it's not Boeing we're talking about here.

      Well, about that " bring them back at some point"... look, "bringing back" is not the hard part. It is the uniqueness of the point that's hard, human payloads are not quite amenable to sprinkling.

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