• In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on DWednesday to the launchpad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Friday Orbital Flight Test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. | JOEL KOWSKY / NASA / VIA AFP-JIJI
    In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on DWednesday to the launchpad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Friday Orbital Flight Test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. | JOEL KOWSKY / NASA / VIA AFP-JIJI

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DALLAS – NASA’s effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn’t happened since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend.

Over the past decade, a lot of attention has been paid to billionaire space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. His company, SpaceX, has been launching payloads into low Earth orbit for years, replete with balletic booster landings and even a space-going Tesla Roadster.

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