Musk S Spacex Will Likely Launch First Crewed Flight Near May 7

According to Eric Berger of Ars Technica, the current working date for the SpaceX Demo-2 launch is May 7.

Launch date is fluid and mission may move into late April, or push later into May depending on a number of variables not hardware related. No final decision yet on duration. — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) February 10, 2020 He cautions the launch date is “fluid” and may be moved up to late April or pushed later into May, and that a final decision has not been made on the duration either. Still, it’s good to see SpaceX appears to still be on track to keep up with Musk’s claims. Berger clarifies that SpaceX does not know the duration of the mission yet because NASA wants to minimize the time of three ISS crew members and there are plenty of moving parts. But after the successful uncrewed test of Crew Dragon capsule’s in-flight launch escape capabilities, things are looking good.

— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) February 10, 2020 In any case, it seems like it seems it won’t be very long until SpaceX sees its first crewed flight – one to possibly go down in the history books. To whet your appetite until then; Elon Musk had previously tweeted a video of a simulation of what that first mission might look like:

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2019 Via Engadget