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NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch - Reuters

NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch - Reuters

NASA set to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil with historic SpaceX launch - Reuters
May 27, 2020 54 secs

(Reuters) - SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, made final preparations to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S.

EDT (2033 GMT), launching astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on a 19-hour ride aboard the company’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.

The astronauts are scheduled to blast off from the same launch pad used in 2011 by NASA’s final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley.

A successful mission would achieve NASA’s top priority, as articulated by Bridenstine, of resuming launches of “American astronauts on American rockets from American soil.” Over the past nine years, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.

The last time NASA launched astronauts into space aboard a brand new vehicle was four decades ago at the start of the shuttle program.

SpaceX successfully tested Crew Dragon without astronauts last year in its first orbital mission to the space station.

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