SpaceX will target the month of January for its first unprepared demonstration flight to the ISS

The NASA program set up to help commercial companies route astronauts to the ISS, dubbed Commercial Crew, has also selected Boeing as part of its first round of $ 6.8 billion of dollars. It is now expected that the company will fly its unmanned Starliner capsule in March and aim for a crewed mission in August if all goes well. Boeing's astronauts include Eric Boe, Josh Cassada, Chris Ferguson, Nicole Mann and Suni Williams.

The announcement by NASA of the launch of the goal on January 7, however, took place less than a day after the filing of a report by The Washington Post said that the agency had ordered a review of the safety of SpaceX and Boeing to better understand the "culture of the workplace".

The report indicates that the investigation was triggered, at least in part, by the recent behavior of SpaceX president, Elon Musk, on the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" broadcast online. We see Musk sipping whiskey and taking a single glass of marijuana.

A spokesman for NASA refused to say to the To post exactly what motivated the examination.

Back on the launch manifesto, SpaceX is scheduled to complete four missions by 2018: two from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and two from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base.

The first of these, dubbed SSO-A, is to be launched from Vandenberg no earlier than 27 November and will mark the first time that the company will attempt to fly the same recall three times. A week later, on December 4, a Falcon 9 will carry thousands of pounds of scientific and scientific experiments into the ISS, from Cape Canaveral at 1:38 pm.