Successful Crewed Flight Test Sets Stage For SpaceX Taxi Rides To ISS

August 07, 2020
SpaceX astronauts
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley (left) and Robert Behnken (second from right) prepared to depart their helicopter at NAS Pensacola following splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 2.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
Sitting side by side in the front row of SpaceX’s flight control room in Hawthorne, California, Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s top executives, kept a wary eye on radio signals coming down from the Crew Dragon capsule as it plunged through the atmosphere, carrying people home from orbit...

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