SpaceX launches astronaut capsule without crew in test mission
by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Mar 02, 2019
2 minutes
SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon capsule for the first time early Saturday in a test flight without people aboard, moving the company closer to ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
The capsule, about 400 pounds of cargo and a mannequin passenger was launched atop on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:49 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral,
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