Shotwell stated the organization is planning an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft before the finish of this yr, where the automobile uses its thrusters to split from a FaIcon 9 rocket during ascent. That will be implemented in 2017 by two exhibition flights to the Cosmopolitan Space Train station, the first without a team and the second with astronauts on panel, and after that the very first operational mission.
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