SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spoke alongside NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Sunday.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday that the company's first crewed mission will probably be in the second quarter of this year.
Helping NASA once again launch its astronauts is "really quite profound," Musk said, as "I think the United States is a nation of explorers, a distillation of the human spirit of exploration." The SpaceX CEO said on Sunday that the company's first crewed mission will probably be in the second quarter of this year, between the months of April and June. Known as Demo-2, this mission would see two NASA astronauts visit the International Space Station for at least a few days. Musk noted that the rocket and spacecraft needed for the mission are already coming together in Florida.
"If it's going to be a longer duration, then we have to have some additional training for our astronauts to actually be prepared to do things on the International Space Station that we weren't planning to have that initial test crew necessarily do. So we've got to look at that and make a determination," Bridenstine said.NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken suited up inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
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