SpaceX Crew Dragon: Getting to a Manned Mission Watch SpaceX test its SuperDraco thrusters in this clip reel shared Thursday: The Government Accountability Office warned in June that NASA needs a backup plan if SpaceX and Boeing fail to meet their deadlines, with the chance that the agency’s contract expires with Russia’s Roscosmos before the crafts are ready.
It all seems impressive, but SpaceX is racing against the clock. SpaceX is working alongside Boeing, which is developing the CST-100 Starliner, to help NASA move away from buying seats on Russian rockets and move launched a bit closer to its base of operations. The company’s human-carrying capsule forms part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, a new plan to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station using commercial spacecraft. That’s equivalent to a peak velocity that reaches 436 mph. Each capsule is fitted with eight engines, and SpaceX claims the setup can move the whole capsule half a mile in 7.5 seconds when all fired together. On Thursday, SpaceX revealed that the capsule’s SuperDraco engines have completed over 700 tests. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is gearing up to take on its next major challenge, ahead of its first mission that will launch astronauts for the first time.
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