Tesla might be back in the headlines, but Elon Musk's other company, SpaceX, is poised to make some big news by sending a commercially-built spacecraft designed to carry humans to the International Space Station in a noteworthy public-private partnership.
"We've had experience wearing all these suits and I think SpaceX looked at all those and tried to improve on some of the things that we complained about. One is that they're really big, really heavy, have a lot of metal in them. Sometimes they're hard to see exactly where you need to see just because of the way the helmets are designed or the visors are designed. And so they took some of those inputs and designed our suit," Hurley said.
"Whenever we talk about dates we're always confident and then something crops up," Shotwell said."Predicting launch dates can make a liar out of the best of us. I hope I am not proven to be a liar on this one. We are targeting November for Demo 1 and April for Demo 2."Gwynne Shotwell president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, left, speaks as NASA astronaut Bob Behnken looks on.
"I think, for probably most astronauts, is messing up. You don't want to make a mistake," Hopkins said.NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover talk to reporters during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters. "The thing that I'm most afraid of is not knowing something that I should know or that if I did know would help us be more successful on the mission — and with a new vehicle that's especially true," Behnken said."Human space flight was the reason SpaceX was founded in the first place," SpaceX director of crew mission management Benjamin Reed said."We are here, it's our number one goal, our number one priority.
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