NASA clears SpaceX test flight to space station
NASA gave its final go-ahead on Friday to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk`s SpaceX company to conduct its first unmanned test flight of a newly designed crew capsule to the International Space Station on March 2.
The approval cleared a key hurdle for SpaceX in its quest to help NASA revive America`s human spaceflight program, stalled since space shuttle missions came to an end in 2011. Image source: Reuters