SpaceX Revs Its Engines as It Gets Closer to Crewed Flight

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 7:12 a.m.

Last Thursday, a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sat perched atop NASA\u2019s historic Pad 39A, at Florida\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, waiting to briefly fire its engines. The exercise was part of a routine pre-launch test. What wasn\u2019t routine was the presence of a Crew Dragon capsule atop the slick black-and-white Falcon.