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SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May

posted by martyb on Friday March 20 2020, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the Up,-Up,-and-Away! dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Elon Musk's SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in May, NASA said, announcing the first crewed launch from the United States to the platform since 2011.

The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs.

"NASA and SpaceX are currently targeting no earlier than mid-to-late May for launch," the US space agency said in a statement Wednesday.

In March, Musk's Crew Dragon capsule made a round trip to the ISS, which is in orbit more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth, with a mannequin on board, before returning to the Atlantic after six days in space.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:34PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:34PM (#973599)

    Hey Musk, why aren't the first to go up in one of your contraptions?

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:38PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:38PM (#973600)

      "Musk, why aren't YOU the first to go up in one of your contraptions?"

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:44PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @07:44PM (#973602)

        Because I have a lot of useful idiots volunteering to be guinea pigs. I'll go up when I'm sure it's safe for me to do so.

        Elon

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday March 20 2020, @07:55PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 20 2020, @07:55PM (#973608) Journal

          Young people believe they are invincible. Nothing can hurt them. Technology is absolutely trustworthy, as long as it has pretty graphics, and especially if it is in the cloud (like Dragon 2 briefly is).

          --
          Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @11:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @11:02PM (#973669)

      Because Crew Dragon is for NASA astronauts, and he's not one.

      Good chance he's one of the first to ride on Starship, though.

  • (Score: 2) by Snospar on Friday March 20 2020, @09:00PM (5 children)

    by Snospar (5366) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 20 2020, @09:00PM (#973620)

    Sounds like they're leaving the planet at just the right time! Once this is a success I expect the elitist one-percenters will be booking their tickets straight away. Hopefully we can get them on the SpaceX Arc "B" and improve the lives of the millions "left behind".

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    • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Friday March 20 2020, @09:06PM (2 children)

      by bart9h (767) on Friday March 20 2020, @09:06PM (#973625)

      or are they sending the virus to contaminate the ISS?

      what could go wrong

    • (Score: -1) by MyOpinion on Saturday March 21 2020, @06:32PM (1 child)

      by MyOpinion (6561) on Saturday March 21 2020, @06:32PM (#973891) Homepage Journal

      There is no "outer space": gas always expands into all available space, filling up its container entirely. Whatever "gravity" theory you come up with, and even in theory, cannot stick it to the outside of a ball against empty space, because gases expand *into* empty space. It is what they do, this is a fact of life, 100% verifiable 100% of the time.

      Yet, some men want to convince you that there is some "outer vacuum" where they venture to, conveniently have their cameras off most of the time, "losing signal" despite the "tens of thousands of satellites", and see the world we live in from a vantage point that is thermodynamically impossible to exist.

      You see a light from the ground, we all do: bit some will point at that light and declare it to be "the ISS, a sealed spacecraft where humans live in". I can do the same all night long, point-and-declare, but where is the proof?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @01:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @01:23AM (#973989)

        Get the Chinese flu.

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