SpaceX Crew Dragon Conducts Unique Flight Test

A loud whoosh, faint smoke trail and billowing parachutes marked a successful demonstration Wednesday by SpaceX of its Crew Dragon spacecraft abort system – an important step in NASA’s endeavor to launch crews to the International Space Station from U.S. soil.

[TAB]

Let's hurry up with this, I'm 61 and not getting any younger! I want Star Trek NOW please!!

[Willard_and_Wee-un]

It's a little known fact that when the Dragon's trunk is not loaded with solar arrays and unpressurized cargo it's outfitted with, not one, but two powerful stereo amplifiers that power an array of speakers, most notably four 30 centimeter sub-woofers arranged in individual band-pass enclosures. During launch preparations the team plays the popular 1980s album "Hooked on Classics" because scientists have determined this album to be the most beneficial to the wildlife surrounding the launch pad.

[jamiegodman]

This is the first time in my 38 years our country has developed a new spacecraft to launch Americans into space. I've never been so excited for the future of space flight. Go Dragon!

[claudiaaquino]

So beautiful ❤️
Thank you SpaceX for sharing 😘

[mattpenguin]

Should the capsule be swaying back and forth like that?

[jmcenanly]

In the normal course of a flight, would the Dragon capsule use  parachutes, or just the Super Dracos?

[temumcientistanomeubairro]

Parabens pelo teste. A cada dia que passa melhira mais e mais

[NetRolllerD]

A bit odd to see an SLS/Orion flight animation with the Apollo-derived LAS tractor tower in a video about a pusher-LAS test - c'mon, at least draw the MLAS there! (Also, shamelessly dropping Orion/SLS in a Dragon video in general.)

[jamiegodman]

NASA you should have poured all the CCdev into SpaceX. Boeing's design is half as innovative and twice as expensive. I understand the need for redundancy so you should have selected SNC even if they would have taken longer to certify, you will have dragon in 2017 and don't need both systems at the same time.

[rdbchase]

Four generations hence, people are not going to board rockets to travel to different places in the Solar System (much less beyond it) the way we travel on planes -- how daft!  Who is this guy?  One can hope for the future and support space science without buying into so improbable a line as that.