NASA finally certified SpaceX to fly astronauts on its Crew Dragon spaceship.
NASA announced it had finally certified SpaceX's whole launch system for human spaceflight.
That decision was the result of the agency's flight-readiness review, in which experts and officials spent two days reviewing SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the Crew Dragon spaceship, the software, and mission operations.
The certification came just days before SpaceX's next planned astronaut launch. The company has already perched a new Crew Dragon on the rocket in preparation for that mission, its longest and most critical yet. Called Crew-1, the round-trip mission to the space station is the first of six that Elon Musk's rocket company has contracted with NASA.
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