Elon Musk's SpaceX to destroy a rocket in a critical Crew Dragon test flight

In a bid to test a crucial emergency abort system, Elon Musk’s X will be intentionally destroying of its own rockets in its final test on Saturday. This will be X's last major hurdle before it can fly NASA astronauts from U.S. soil. launch is scheduled to take off during a short 4-hour window.

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This final test will determine if X and ir astronaut capsule will qualify to be able to ferry humans to International Station. National Aeronautics and ministration (NASA) expects to be able to send humans into as early as mid-2020.

US's attempts to revive flight has experienced many years of development and delays. Ever since NASA terminated its shuttle program in 2011, it has been using Russian craft in order to send its astronauts into and International Station.

Back in 2014, NASA awarded Boeing and X $4.2 Billion and $2.5 billion respectively in order to develop capsule systems that could be used for ferrying astronauts to station.

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19 kilometres above ocean Falcon 9 will experience an intentional booster shutdown in a mock failure and that will cause Crew Dragon capsule's SuperDraco thrusters that are supposed to jet capsule away at supersonic speeds of up to 2,400 kilometres per hour.

If everything goes according to plan, three parachutes will deploy to slow capsules decent on water. capsule will be carrying two crash test dummies along which will be covered in motion sensors which will provide invaluable data about amount of G-force that astronauts will have to face in capsule.

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