Elon Musk’s SpaceX Readies First Astronaut Launch by Private Firm – The Wall Street Journal

With the scheduled delivery of two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, SpaceX goals to propel the U.S. correct into a historic new generation of commercially led space exploration.

No firm has flown commercially developed hardware carrying people and rendezvoused with the global space put of dwelling. If winning, it’d be a convincing achievement for Dwelling Exploration Applied sciences Corp.; its billionaire founder, Elon Musk; and a milestone for NASA.

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