SpaceX Gets Astronauts To Try Out Its Dragon Crew Cabin

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @02:12AM from the want-to-get-inside-it dept.

Zothecula writes "With the space shuttle program now officially over, the United States needs a new reusable vehicle for getting supplies to and from the International Space Station. NASA is considering the Dragon spacecraft, designed by California-based SpaceX Exploration Technologies, to take over that role. The Dragon's scheduled late March/early April test flight to the ISS will be unmanned, utilizing a cargo configuration of the spacecraft. Last Friday, however, SpaceX released photographs of an engineering model of its planned seven-passenger crew cabin, complete with a crew that included real, live astronauts."

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Re:60 Minutes piece optimistic about SpaceX by Cornwallis · 2012-03-20 02:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Even Obama has visited their facilities.
Talk about the kiss of death...
Re:Only 4 images? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-20 02:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hey at least there's a couple of chicks.