Private test pilots to fly first commercial crewed space flights for NASA

Monday, January 14, 2013 - 08:30 in Astronomy & Space

Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America's capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil – perhaps as early as 2015 – which was totally lost following the forced shuttle shutdown.

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