The next SpaceX launch will be the company's first with people on board

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SpaceX's next launch — Demo-2 — will be its first launch with people on board.

SpaceX on Monday confirmed that its next launch will be Demo-2, currently scheduled for May 27.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are set to liftoff at 4:32 p.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.company. SpaceX had planned to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites this week. But, due to a coming tropical storm, the company decided to delay the satellite mission and instead focus on Demo-2.

NASA has helped fund the development of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft under a program known as Commercial Crew. The Commercial Crew program is NASA's replacement for the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011. While NASA has awarded SpaceX more than $3.1 billion to develop Crew Dragon,compared to NASA's previous plans.

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