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Space.com by By Mike Wall 5/22/2020

SpaceX just notched another milestone on the path to its first-ever crewed launch next week.

Elon Musk's company is gearing up for the Wednesday (May 27) launch of the Demo-2 mission, which will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

This afternoon (May 22), the company performed a "static fire" test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch Demo-2, firing up the booster's first-stage engines briefly on the pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

More: https://www.space.com/spacex-test-fire-rocket-demo-2-mission.html