SpaceX plans Starship test flight
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With the safe landing of Crew Dragon, the US space agency broke a nearly decade-long gap in its ability to put humans into orbit. Through its Commercial Crew program and multibillion-dollar contracts awarded in 2014,
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the astronauts set to launch into orbit on a SpaceX rocket Wednesday, are both former military pilots, both recruited by NASA in 2000, and both married to fellow astronauts. With their crew cuts, cool demeanor, short and ...
