SpaceX
Earlier this week, the Crew Dragon spacecraft that is slated to take flight on Demonstration Mission 1 by the end of this summer arrived at SpaceX's launch site in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. This milestone occurred over a month after the Crew Dragon was transported to NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, to undergo thermal testing inside a vacuum chamber. With Crew Dragon now at CCAFS, the only component that needs to arrive is the Block 5 Falcon 9 booster that will lift Dragon on its unmanned journey to the International Space Station (ISS). Along with Boeing prepping its CST-100 Starliner for its inaugural orbital mission to the ISS later this year, SpaceX is close to giving America the ability to launch astronauts from U.S. soil once more.
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