Crucial flight tests for NASA’s two commercial crew vehicles are slipping ever closer to 2019. The space agency released the following updated schedules for Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Dragon 2 vehicles today:Targeted Test Flight DatesBoeing Orbital Flight Test (uncrewed): August 2018Boeing Crew Flight Test (crewed): November 2018SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 (uncrewed): August 2018SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (crewed): December 2018Boeing’s schedule has not changed from the previous update. SpaceX’s demonstration flights have slipped from April and August to August and December, respectively. No reasons have been given for the slips.
Friday, January 19, 2018
SpaceX Commercial Human Spaceflight Missions Slip
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