SpaceX Outfits LC39A With New Crew Access Walkway

Credit: SpaceX Dragon access arm: SpaceX
Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A has been outfitted with a sleek steel-and- aluminum walkway to allow astronauts, and perhaps one day paying passengers, to board SpaceX Dragon capsules. The company is targeting its first crew Dragon flight in April 2019. The 85-ft.-long (26-m) Crew...
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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