The first manned flight from SpaceX won't take off until 2018, a delay of about a year.
The Denver Post reports that Elon Musk's company has pushed back the manned Dragon launch to the second quarter of 2018. Originally, the flight was scheduled for spring 2017.
The delay might be linked to problematic loading of supercooled fuels. That was apparently the cause of the unmanned Falcon 9 explosion in September.
Back in 2014, Musk originally talked about the Dragon spacecraft carrying people to orbit as soon as late 2016. And he also has plans of colonizing Mars in the future.
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The Denver Post reports that Elon Musk's company has pushed back the manned Dragon launch to the second quarter of 2018. Originally, the flight was scheduled for spring 2017.
The delay might be linked to problematic loading of supercooled fuels. That was apparently the cause of the unmanned Falcon 9 explosion in September.
Back in 2014, Musk originally talked about the Dragon spacecraft carrying people to orbit as soon as late 2016. And he also has plans of colonizing Mars in the future.
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