Musk’s SpaceX will likely launch first manned flight near May 7

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has made major headway towards making space travel more accessible and efficient thanks to reusable rockets, but until now its focus has been on unmanned flights. Then last month, Musk said the company was planning for a launch sometime in Q2 of the year; i.e., between April and June. Now we have our clearest indication of when that date may be. According to Eric Berger of Ars Technica, the current working date for the SpaceX Demo-2 launch is May 7. Working date for SpaceX's Demo-2 launch is May 7. Dragon is in good shape. Launch date is…

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