SpaceX Certified By NASA To Fly Humans To Space After A Decade Of Development
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SpaceX Crew Dragon during a propulsive hover test in 2015. Image: SpaceX
As it gears up for its first operational crewed astronaut launch today, SpaceX culminated years of work on its crew launch capabilities as the company was finally certified as human-rated by NASA after SpaceX flew its first space capsule, the Cargo Dragon in 2010. The certification comes as NASA finished its flight readiness review for the upcoming Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station, with representatives from the space agency and the company also providing other, key details for the mission during a press teleconference today.