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Haul astronauts back to the space station anticipated for next year. doing the same with the star liner, taking astronauts in early 2020 as well. both companies have seen the planned test flights delayed, as has nasa's sos and orion which are years behind schedule and several billion dollars over budget. but 2024 to the moon is realistic. >> the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule have made significant improvements in cost and schedule. we're in the 5-yard line about to pumping them to the end zone. i'm confident they'll be ready to go. >> nasa's first test flight, the artemis one mission is...

>> trace: well, nasa is a step closer to getting back to the moon with the test of an escape pod today. a rocket ship on top of a rocket ship. the agency reports that it successfully tested the orion crew capsule. the launch abort system pulls the crew's module away for a rocket for a safe splash down in the motion. the system with outrun a speeding rocket and pull the astronauts to safety. the test is part of nasa's operation to land the next man and the first woman on the moon by 2024.

Delay because they one of the books period.right? thank you. boeing joins a push to return american astronauts to space. they have a test flight plan for late summer, phil keating has a look at how astronauts are training for this. >> this large lightning -- >> veteran astronaut chris ferguson left flint is based on the space shuttle mission on 2011 on atlantis. he is now returning to return to orbit by the end of the year. on board the boeing crew capsule, the store leonard. boeing gave great access into their production facility where we store leonard capsules are in various stages of develo...

The desire. whether or not he's given the time to do that is now more uncertain than ever. and this just in nasa and the private us company space x. have achieved milestone in the effort to give america the capability to send astronauts into space. a new crew capsule a successful a docked with the international space station for the first time for this launch the only passenger on board was a dummy named ripley but nasser and space x. hope to carry a real astronaut later this year but american astronauts have been forced to ride with russia's space agency since nasa rich had its own space shut...

Such a big deal, nasa's administrator and the first four astronauts that will fly the crew dragon came to kennedy to watch the future. >> i can't begin to explain how exciting it is for a test pilot to be on a first flight of a vehicle and, you know, we'll be ready when spacex and nasa's ready for us to fly it. >> reporter: and once the spacex crew capsule is up and running and boeing's starliner is doing the same, nasa can finally stop depending on russia to get our astronauts up to the space station. jon? jon: phil keating in cape canaveral, thank you. of and from the heavens and to depths w...