Trump, Pence among digitaries making another trip to Florida for historic milestone.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX made history Saturday with the maiden launch of two NASA astronauts into orbit aboard a commercially owned spacecraft. The Crew Dragon lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:23 p.m. for its 19-hour journey to the International Space Station, the first human spaceflight from U.S. soil since 2011.
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The mission is the first crewed launch under a public-private partnership with NASA called the Commercial Crew program, under which the space agency plans to buy rides to space on commercially-owned vehicles that are also used to transport other nations’ astronauts, space entrepreneurs and even private citizens.
The launch is a “much awaited turning point in our new space age,” said Namira Salim, one of the founders of Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company that plans to fly later this year. “It is a giant leap not only for commercial spaceflight, but ushers a new era for human spaceflight which makes space affordable and accessible for commercial entities and spacefaring and emerging space nations.”
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SpaceX is set to make its second attempt to launch astronauts to the International Space Station at 3:22 p.m. on Saturday afternoon but the weather outlook puts the chances of another delay at 50 percent https://t.co/A4cIWGbzQQ
— POLITICO (@politico) May 30, 2020
Lift off! 🚀 https://t.co/QUfHjMhZLC pic.twitter.com/9AS2PWR8QN
— POLITICO (@politico) May 30, 2020
So good to see! pic.twitter.com/qSipgl2LnV
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 30, 2020
Main engine cutoff ☑️
Second stage separation ☑️@AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug are heading into orbit.#LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/ed6LTUV63d— NASA (@NASA) May 30, 2020
Apparently, I'm not only living rent-free in the President's head, but it's furnished and comes with a mini-bar. https://t.co/G3qaECnN5K
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 30, 2020
Docking confirmed! @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug officially docked to the @Space_Station at 10:16am ET: pic.twitter.com/hCM4UvbwjR
— NASA (@NASA) May 31, 2020
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