Spacex On Verge Of Manned Spaceflight

SPACEX ON VERGE OF MANNED SPACEFLIGHT
A dream of Elon Musk for a long time was to see humans colonize Mars, the reason he started SpaceX and Tesla (to a degree) was to see his dream fulfilled, dream of humans walking on Mars someday.
The road to what is sure to be a massive milestone for Spacex and Elon Musk started in 2002, when SpaceX was formed. Elon Musk had though experience trying to secure his very first rocket, being laughed out by a Russians, Elon Musk looked for another approach, why buy rockets when you can build them yourself.
SpaceX early attempts at rocketry where mix success, and at one point it was all or nothing for Elon Musk, literally his very last attempt at having space rocket company depended on him having final flight test of falcon 9 rocket. The final test was a massive success, so much so NASA was impressed and awarded first 5 year contract valued @$1.85 billion and the rest is history.
SpaceX today is on the verge of first manned space flight, and even though the road to this point was rough, at times with some serious failures that could have gone really bad for SpaceX and elon musk, the last 2-3 years can be considered most successful for SpaceX and Elon Musk. SpaceX has managed to achieve unthinkable, and company now controls nearly a third of global space launch market with over 20 Falcon 9 launches per year.
And with each launch SpaceX manages to secure future Elon Musk hopes to build which is a manned presence on Mars. With launch of DM-1 or Demonstration Mission-1 scheduled for March 2nd, delayed for so many weeks, the original space flight was scheduled for January 17, after being delayed from January 3rd launch date.
The DM-1 mission scheduled to take off on March 2nd, will test Crew Dragon, SpaceX first manned spacecraft designed to take NASA astronauts to the ISS and land in the sea on its return to Earth. DM-1 mission won’t have a crew on-board as this is first demonstration flight to test the spacecraft and its capability, docking, maundering, atmospheric re-entry and splash down among more crucial tests.
If all goes according to plans, SpaceX Crew Dragon hoisted on top of Falcon 9 Rocket will lift off from a launch pad 39a @Kennedy Space Centre on March 2nd, this is all atmospherics and weather conditions are ok. Everything being OK, SpaceX Crew Dragon will dock with the ISS few days later and splash down somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida Keys.
DM-1 is the first step towards what is way more important goal, and that is manned mission and manned space flight now scheduled for July. With first manned mission SpaceX will fulfil first objective on road to Mars, the manned space flight. This will also be important return of manned space flight from US Soil by an US space Company after 8 years since Space Shuttle retired, first commercial space flight by a private space company, first SpaceX manned flight ever, I know loads of firsts.
Crucially this will be the test of SpaceX capability and if they’re up to the task of sending or operating manned space flights, and although NASA will be in charge of entire process, SpaceX is the one who developed and engineered the vehicle, something they’ll utilize when developing the Starship. After all, SpaceX is doing all this for a good reason, apart from making all important commercial sense and profits from doing something purposeful, SpaceX is making Elon Musk dream of Mars colonization. And after all he started all this for a purpose to expand humanity beyond confines of one pale blue dot, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. As someone very important once said.

Spacex On Verge Of Manned Spaceflight

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