CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX closes in on human spaceflight with this weekend’s debut of a new capsule designed for astronauts.
The six-day test flight will be real in every regard, beginning with a Florida liftoff on March 2, and a docking the next day with the International Space Station. But the Dragon capsule won’t carry humans, rather a test dummy—named Ripley after the tough heroine in the “Alien” films—in the same white SpaceX spacesuit that astronauts will wear.
