Back in Business: NASA Is Set to Return to Human Spaceflight with Historic SpaceX Launch

Posted on AllSides May 27th, 2020
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Barring poor weather or last-minute technical glitches, shortly after 4:30 P.M. Eastern time today, a spaceship carrying two crew members will blast off on a rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight will be bound for the International Space Station (ISS), but its true destination is the annals of space history: it will be the first time that U.S. astronauts have been launched from American soil since the final flight of the space shuttle program in 2011—and that anyone has flown to space using a commercially built...

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/back-in-business-nasa-is-set-to-return-to-human-spaceflight-with-historic-spacex-launch/

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