American Military News April 29, 2020 Richard Tribou - Orlando Sentinel
SpaceX is already looking past next month’s planned landmark mission of its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.
Currently slated for May 27, the mission from Kennedy Space Center will be the first time astronauts will launch from the United States on any mission since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
Almost nine years since the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-135, SpaceX is ready to launch two astronauts on a test mission of Crew Dragon to certify it as the first of what NASA hopes to be two commercial vehicles to take over the regular transport of crew to the ISS.
The company founded by Elon Musk, is already prepping for the next ISS mission, though, assuming NASA signs off on the test mission. Dubbed Crew-1, the mission is set to carry three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut to the ISS on the first of an initial six missions as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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