Commercial Crew Test Pilots Expect to Walk Shop Floor

Mark Carreau July 13, 2015

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...

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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