The company'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. That would be an historic feat that could end the United States' near decade-long reliance on Russia to fly crew to and from the ISS. Crew Dragon is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 am ET on Saturday. The capsule is designed to carry up to seven people, but for this test flight it will be loaded with 400 pounds of cargo and supplies. It'll also carry a flight dummy named Ripley , named for "Alien" protagonist Ellen Ripley, who'll be dressed in the futuristic spacesuits SpaceX developed for its astronautsRead More

Source: CNN March 01, 2019 19:41 UTC