Crew Dragon parachute test
SpaceX conducted the last parachute test for its Crew Dragon spacecraft May 1, the same day company and NASA officials said they were in final preparations for the Demo-2 crewed test flight scheduled for May 27.

To get a new, state-of-the-art crewed spacecraft ready to carry astronauts, SpaceX and NASA had to overcome problems with a technology long thought to be understood.

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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...