SpaceX lights the candle May 27th.

I think that Shepard’s Prayer is appropriate at this moment:

NASA gave the green light on Friday to next week’s launch of two astronauts aboard a SpaceX vessel—the first crewed space flight from US soil in nine years and a crucial step towards ending American dependence on Russian rockets.

Top officials at the US space agency and Elon Musk’s company had been meeting since Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final checks of the Crew Dragon space capsule ahead of its maiden May 27 crewed mission.

I kind of need this to work. I don’t think I have to explain why, right? I need it to work, and I really want a private company doing the work, too. Here’s praying that it does.