The critical debut flight will go through every step of a real mission — just without any human passengers onboard.
The spacecraft will remain attached to the orbiting outpost for a week, before undocking on March 8 and splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida, several hours later.
The spacecraft is designed to carry up to seven passengers to the space station, but for this flight, the capsule is loaded up with 450 pounds of cargo and a test dummy outfitted in one of SpaceX’s customized spacesuits. The dummy is nicknamed Ripley, in honor of Ellen Ripley, theHans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of Build and Flight Reliability, revealed Thursday in a pre-launch news briefing.
Last year, SpaceX sent another spacesuit-clad test dummy — this one named Starman in a nod to David Bowie — into space on the inaugural launch of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket.SpaceX has been flying robotic supply missions to the space station since 2012, but this test flight, known as Demo-1, is the first time that a commercially built spacecraft designed to carry astronauts will make that journey.
NASA is expected to schedule one more uncrewed flight of the Crew Dragon before authorizing two of its astronauts to fly the capsule to the space station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon was developed in partnership with NASA to help the space agency replace its space shuttle fleet,
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