Then, last year, the same Dragon spacecraft that would fly astronauts to the station exploded during a test of its abort engines. Last year, SpaceX successfully completed a test mission of its Dragon spacecraft without crews to the space station. Musk, overcome, changed a log-in password to “ilovenasa.”Then Musk took on Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s decade-long monopoly on Pentagon launch contracts. Since Elon Musk founded it in 2002, SpaceX has led a growing commercial space industry that includes Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. A Falcon 9 rocket launches for a resupply mission to the International Space Station in 2018.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2020 14:01 UTC