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Key Facts about SpaceX Crewed Dragon’s First Test Flight May 6 – Watch Live

Monday, May 4, 2015 21:09
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SpaceX Pad Abort Test vehicle poised for May 6, 2015 test flight from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Cape Canaveral, Florida.  Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Pad Abort Test vehicle poised for May 6, 2015 test flight from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: SpaceX

The first critical test flight of SpaceX’s crewed Dragon that will soon launch American astronauts back to orbit and the International Space Station (ISS) from American soil now less than two days away.

The test flight – called the Pad Abort Test – is slated for the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 6, if all goes well. The test vehicle will reach roughly a mile in altitude (5000 feet, 1500 meters) and last about only about 90 seconds in duration from beginning to end. (…)
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Post tags: cape canaveral, CCP, Commercial Space, crewed Dragon, Dragon 2, Elon Musk, Falcon 9 rocket, Hans Koenigsmann, human spaceflight, ISS, manned Dragon, NASA, pad abort test, SLC-40, Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon

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