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SpaceX demo flight a month away, will be “especially dangerous,” Musk says

Monday January 7, 2019. 04:20 PM , from Ars Technica
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SpaceX is about a month away from launching its first commercial crew mission, the company's founder, Elon Musk, tweeted this weekend. This will be a demonstration flight, without humans on board.
Officially, NASA had been holding to a January 17 launch date, but that has become untenable due to ongoing work to resolve technical issues, two sources said, as well as the partial government shutdown. More than 90 percent of the space agency's employees are presently furloughed during the shutdown, which is affecting the agency's ability to make final approvals for the launch. Some key government officials are continuing to work on the program without pay.
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