Demo-2 static fire
SpaceX conducted May 22 a static-fire test of the Falcon 9 that will launch the Demo-2 commercial crew mission, shortly after the completion of a flight readiness review.

NASA has given SpaceX approval to proceed with final preparations for the first commercial crew mission with astronauts on board, although there is still work to complete ahead of the planned May 27 launch.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...