Big safety tests loom for spaceX´s manned dragon space capsule ( carmen llavero)

Big Safety Tests Loom for SpaceX's Manned Dragon Space      Capsule

NASA  expected to announce its choice for one or more private astronaut taxis any day now, and SpaceX aims to be ready if its name is called.
The California-based commercial spaceflight firm continues to make strides with its entry in NASA´s comercial  competition, a seven-passenger capsule called Dragon. Indeed, SpaceX has already met most of the milestones laid out in the most recent round of NASA funding, which is known as CCiCap (Commercial Crew Integrated Capability), and plans to have all the boxes ticked by January, company representatives said.
"Pretty soon we'll be left with only the two big-ticket items, if you will, of the whole CCiCap program, which are the abort tests," former astronaut Garrett Reisman, head of SpaceX's commercial crew program, said late last month during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group.
     

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