NASA, SpaceX OK 1st Test Flight of Crew Capsule Next Week

NASA, SpaceX OK 1st Test Flight of Crew Capsule Next Week
Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 14, 2010. Carlos Barria/Reuters
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—NASA and SpaceX on Friday, Feb. 22, approved a first test flight next week of the new commercial Dragon capsule designed for crew.

No one will be aboard, only an instrumented dummy in a white SpaceX spacesuit. But the capsule will still fly to the International Space Station, following its planned March 2 liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.