<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Mar 9, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Stuart LaForge <<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com">avant@sollegro.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Quoting Dan Ust:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dragon 2 is on its way to the ISS.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>And now it has made a safe return. I am actually a little surprised that nobody has mentioned the success of the first manned space mission using a privately owned space craft. How cool is that? I for one think it heralds a day when there will be jobs for bartenders in space.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Actually, Dragon 2 had no crew aboard. The crewed mission is scheduled for July this year. And before that is one more test flight: the in flight abort test scheduled for this June. See:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/02/06/">https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/02/06/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note that there’s still a chance of Boeing beating SpaceX with the first private crewed mission to orbit.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>