The US NASA space agency has approved a first flight test of the capsule for manned missions.
Next Saturday, the new capsule should take off for the first time. But only with a life-size doll on board.
NASA, however, wishes to bring astronauts equipped with a SpaceX rocket into space for the first time this year. SpaceX has sent its space capsule "Dragon" to the ISS several times, but so far only with equipment on board.
For the first time in July, astronauts will fly into the man-made "Crew Dragon" capsule, which will be carried in space by a Falcon 9 rocket. Two astronauts must participate in the mission on the # 39; ISS.
Transport contract with Russia expires
SpaceX space company billionaire Elon Musk is the first private company to send its own space capsule to the ISS. The US space shuttle program was interrupted in 2011.
Since then, US astronauts have only been able to reach the ISS with Russian Soyuz rockets. The contract with Russia expires in November. Then SpaceX and Boeing will take over.
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