Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories. SpaceX’s upcoming test flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft will be the first-ever crewed mission using the company’s hardware. It’s a very big deal for both SpaceX and NASA, which recruited SpaceX as part of its Commercial Crew program alongside competitor Boeing. Recently, NASA suggested that it would be ready to launch the first two astronauts on a Crew Dragon ship as early as May, but a recent parachute test threw that timeline into jeopardy. As was reported yesterday, the test didn’t exactly go as either SpaceX or NASA would have liked. While hauling a dummy object into the air to test the Crew Dragon parachute system that had been installed on it, the helicopter being used for the test became unstable and the object had to be released. It was destroyed on impact with the ground, but nobody was harmed. Don't Miss : Today’s deals: $299 Apple Watch Series 10, $349 Vitamix blender, Sony headphones, $18 cabinet lighting, more NASA is very particular about the criteria it sets forth for its partners, particular when the hardware being tested will be responsible for the safety of its own astronauts. So, when SpaceX announced the test snafu, it wasn’t immediately clear whether or not the unfortunate issue would affect the timeline for sending the first humans into space in the Crew Dragon. In a new update released by NASA today, the agency acknowledges the issue with the parachute test and appears to support the decision of the helicopter pilot in releasing the test object in order to keep the crew of the aircraft safe. More importantly, the update mentions the same “mid-to-late May” window for the launch of the first crewed SpaceX mission, which is good news.