SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule, which is built to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, will fly its first demo mission this weekend
The company's new Crew Dragon capsule, which is built to carry
turned for the first time to the private sector to build the next generation of human spaceflight hardware. SpaceX and Boeing , which developed a capsule called Starliner, have contracts worth up to $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively.Both companies have had years of delays getting their spacecrafts ready to fly.
has paid Russia about $80 million per seat to send US astronauts to space aboard Soyuz rockets — a fact that isn't very popular in the halls of Congress. Those Soyuz contracts were set to run out in 2019 and review ahead of Saturday's launch. If all goes well during the demo mission, the company will conduct a test on Crew Dragon's emergency abort systems in June. More safety checks are also in store.SpaceX's first crewed mission, which will fly
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