The capsule, and a mannequin passenger named Ripley, lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 11:49 p.m. Pacific time, a milestone that moves the Elon Musk-led company closer to ferrying humans to the International Space Station.
This video grab shows a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard lifting off at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In a post-launch press conference early Saturday morning, Musk said he was “a little emotionally exhausted” because the launch was “super stressful.” Boeing’s first flight test of its CST-100 Starliner capsule without crew aboard is set for April, with a crewed test expected no earlier than August. The crew capsule will also have the necessary life-support systems on board, though SpaceX executive Hans Koenigsmann noted that the early Dragon cargo capsule did have a side window.
The company will have to work through several outstanding issues noted prior to Friday’s flight, such as understanding the full behavior of the pressure vessels in the Falcon 9 rocket’s second-stage.were implicated in a 2016 launch pad explosionSpaceX and NASA will also continue testing the capsule’s parachute system and try to rectify a problem with the capsule’s thrusters, which did not operate optimally at certain temperatures during testing, NASA said Thursday.
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