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

Irene Klotz 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...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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