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    With rocket launch, SpaceX begins a test

    by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times Mar 03, 2019 4 minutes

    It was 1 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, just an hour after SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon capsule for the first time without humans aboard, and Elon Musk was drained.

    Calling the NASA test launch "super stressful," the chief executive later recalled how SpaceX's first three attempts at launching its early Falcon 1 rocket ended in failure.

    If Falcon 1's fourth launch had not worked, "that would have been it for us," Musk said.

    That rocket launch was a success, and this time around Musk had good fortune on his first attempt.

    The Crew Dragon, which is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:49

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