SpaceX may not have stuck its recent ambitious water landing, but Elon Musk's private rocket company isn't letting that slow it down. Just a few minutes ago on the official SpaceX Facebook page and YouTube, the company posted the above video and photos of its capsule designed to carry astronauts, the Dragon 2 or Crew Dragon, performing a "hover test."

While SpaceX has been using the original Dragon to carry cargo into space, the Dragon 2 is meant to carry a crew of up to seven astronauts into orbit and eventually all the way to the International Space Station, as well as to land them safely back on Earth using onboard propulsive thrusters. Those thrusters are precisely what SpaceX is testing, to make sure that they can be switched on-and-off in a reliable and controlled fashion.

In the YouTube version of the video, SpaceX explains that the test was performed on November 24 last year, the second part of two tests conducted at SpaceX's facility in McGregor, Texas, arranged to satisfy NASA's Commercial Crew Program requirements: