Nasa official takes tour of Elon Musk’s SpaceX factory after tiff
Jim Bridenstine’s visit to SpaceX headquarters comes as SpaceX works to overcome key technical problems on the Crew Dragon
10 October 2019 - 13:40
Los Angeles, US — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk opened his private rocket factory to the top official of US space agency Nasa on Thursday, for a tour and progress report on the company's long-delayed Crew Dragon astronaut capsule.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is paying commercial launch contractors SpaceX and Boeing $6.8bn to build rocket-and-capsule systems to return astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil for the first time since the US's space shuttle programme ended in 2011...
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