SpaceX Crew Dragon Conducts Propulsive Hover and Parachute Drop Tests; Videos

On the road to restoring US Human spaceflight from US soil, SpaceX conducted a pair of key tests involving a propulsive hover test and parachute drop test for their Crew Dragon vehicle which is slated to begin human missions in 2017. SpaceX released a short video showing the Dragon 2 vehicle executing a "picture-perfect propulsive hover test" on a test stand at the firms rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. The video published last week shows the Dragon 2 simultaneously firing all eig...