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SpaceX > First flight May 30, 2020

NASA, SpaceX launch astronauts from US soil

video    CNN    31 May 2020

SpaceX made history Saturday

with a successful rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

The Falcon 9 launch was the first to carry American astronauts

launched from American soil in nearly a decade,

and the first time a private company has sent people to space.

Mark Strassman reports.

A SpaceX spacecraft

carrying two NASA astronauts soared into outer space

— marking the first time humans have traveled

into Earth's orbit from US soil in nearly a decade.

Liftoff occurred just after 3:20 pm ET

from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

Astronauts Robert Behnken, 49, and Douglas Hurley, 53,

will spend about 19 hours aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule

as it slowly maneuvers its way toward the International Space Station.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQZpqpzRxI

SpaceX        USA

2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/
1195668373/nasa-spacex-crew-7-launch-international-space-station-iss

2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/
991232213/astronauts-splash-down-in-spacex-dragon-capsule-after-6-months-in-orbit

2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/
866340499/spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-successfully-docks-with-the-international-space-stati

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30/
863212676/trump-takes-credit-for-space-launch-that-got-its-start-a-decade-ago

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30/
864514995/spacex-and-nasa-try-once-more-to-launch-astronauts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/
science/spacex-nasa-astronauts.html

Nasa’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/
science/space/spacex-docks-international-space-station.html

Nasa’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission – in pictures        UK

SpaceX has launched four astronauts

to the International Space Station

on the first full-fledged taxi flight for Nasa

by a private company.

Three Americans

and one Japanese astronaut on the Dragon capsule

will remain at the orbiting lab for the next six months

until their replacements arrive in April 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/17/
nasas-spacex-crew-1-mission-in-pictures

spaceflight        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/
science/spacex-nasa-astronauts.html

Dragon capsule        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/
866340499/spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-successfully-docks-
with-the-international-space-stati

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30/
864514995/spacex-and-nasa-try-once-more-to-launch-astronauts

dock at the International Space Station

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/
science/space/spacex-docks-international-space-station.html

dock with the International Space Station

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/
866340499/spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-successfully-docks-
with-the-international-space-stati

capsule > splash down

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/
991232213/astronauts-splash-down-in-spacex-dragon-capsule-
after-6-months-in-orbit

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