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DannyB [soylentnews.org] writes:

SpaceX’s first astronaut mission could take off in May [techcrunch.com]

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 [twitter.com] 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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