SpaceX successfully launches Crew Dragon on historic test flight

Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for making us aware that SpaceX successfully launched Crew Dragon capsule on historic test flight.
"SpaceX has taken one small step toward sending astronauts into space, with the successful first launch of the Crew Dragon capsule early Saturday morning.
Affixed to the top of a Falcon 9 booster, the rounded cone capsule of the Crew Dragon blasted off in a blaze of fire and smoke from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 a.m. ET Saturday. The unmanned launch is the first stage of the Demo-1 mission, designed to test the capabilities of the capsule over the next week, as it heads toward the International Space Station (ISS).
Though no human crew were on board, locked within the capsule was a flight dummy -- nicknamed Ripley -- and an anthropomorphic plushie of planet Earth designed to indicate when the capsule had reached the zero gravity. The capsule was also carrying around 400 pounds (~180 kg) of crew supplies and equipment to mimic future missions."
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Thank you Bill for sharing this piece of good news!!! This was certainly a great achievement by Space X! It certainly was a big letdown to see us have to rely on Russia for transporting our Crew members to the ISS! I sincerely hope that Space X will be totally successful with the Crew Dragon space capsule and perhaps on to a new state of the art space shuttle or similar craft...

Good deal, great to see, and about time.