SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are rolled out to Launch Complex 39A for a dry run to prep for this weekend’s flight test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Since its start, NASA’s human spaceflight programs revolved around craft owned by the agency. Though contractors built the Apollo capsule and the space shuttles, NASA oversaw every aspect of development and the vehicles were tested, launched and operated under the agency’s oversight. “Once the government has done it, then it makes sense to push it over into the marketplace,” said Carissa Christensen, chief executive of analytics and consulting firm Bryce Space and Technology. “That happens all the time for all kinds of technologies This is just a very dramatic one.”
that first took Americans into space and eventually, to the moon. The reliance on this tried-and-true shape is intentional.
Well done! 👏🇺🇸
Good. About damn time we stop relying on soviet junkers to take our people into space.
Hope it goes well!