Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for first private astronaut mission
The launch of two US astronauts to the ISS, ending Nasa’s nine-year break in human space flight, will be viewed by Donald Trump from the White House
26 May 2020 - 17:55
Cape Canaveral — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, ending the US space agency’s nine-year hiatus in human space flight.
California-based SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and its Falcon 9 rocket is due to lift off at 8.33pm GMT on Wednesday from the same launch pad used by Nasa’s last space shuttle mission in 2011...
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