NASA eyes Aug. for SpaceX ship liftoff with Japanese astronaut aboard

NASA is eyeing Aug. 30 for another launch of a spacecraft developed by U.S. aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi scheduled to be on board, the head of the U.S. space agency said Tuesday.The mission will follow the first crewed test flight for SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle to the International Space Station, slated for Wednesday. The test flight will carry two American astronauts, making it the first human spaceflight from U.S. soil since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011."Now we're targeting Aug. 30 for a launch" of SpaceX's so-called first operational m…READ FULL ARTICLE