Crew-5 astronauts are confident in SpaceX's ability to fly human passengers safely.
"The booster stage came in contact with a bridge on the route," Benjamin Reed, SpaceX's senior director of the human spaceflight program, said in the livestreamed NASA briefing.
"We assessed that damage. It was a fairly minor incursion, but it still caused some damage," Reed continued."We decided to replace the composite interstage and some of the other components on that first stage." Crew-5 includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.
"Everybody is certainly on the same page that the hardware needs to be reliable and it needs to be safe," Mann continued."We have full confidence that NASA and SpaceX and the international partners are not going to put us on a rocket or a spacecraft that they feel is not ready to go."
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