If successful Elon Musk's SpaceX will be one step closer to achieving his decades-long mission of ferrying astronauts into space.
: A spacecraft built by SpaceX is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station in the second stage of a critical test of the private company's technology.
The self-guided SpaceX Crew Dragon launched on Saturday on board a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The capsule is set to catch up with the orbiting ISS at about 0830 GMT on Sunday and dock at about 6:05am, NASA said. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a demo Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral on Saturday.Live coverage of the rendezvous and docking will air on NASA Television and the agency's website.The crewless mission, called Demo-1, is SpaceX's chance to show it can build a spaceship that can carry humans. Its missions so far have involved shuttling cargo to the ISS.
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