New York (CNN Business) SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, its first spacecraft designed to carry humans, took flight for the first time Saturday. An uncrewed demonstration mission took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Saturday, en route to the International Space Station. The successful launch without people puts SpaceX one step closer to an historic landmark: Crew Dragon could be the first commercially built spacecraft to carry NASA astronauts to orbit. And Crew Dragon — along with a capsule called Starliner built by Boeing — could end the United States' decade-long reliance on Russia for human spaceflight. His rocket company's main goal since it was founded in 2002 was to someday send humans to space.

Source: CNN March 02, 2019 08:00 UTC