Commercial Crew Test Pilots Expect to Walk Shop Floor

Crew Dragon pad abort test.
Credit: SpaceX
HOUSTON — The four veteran NASA astronauts recently selected to test fly NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Vehicles — Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s crewed Dragon — see their job as establishing risk-reducing technical and operational familiarity with the spacecraft to restore U.S. human launch...

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