Two former military pilots launching into space on SpaceX’s first manned mission
FeaturedWIB air May 27, 2020 Staff Writer 0
Washington (dpa) – United States astronauts on Wednesday were set to kick off a new era of human spaceflight with a historic first: a launch into space from US territory using a rocket built in the US by a private company.
The astronauts on the Demo 2 mission will be heading to the International Space Station (ISS), provided that inclement weather does not get in the way.
Since the US stopped its own launches in 2011 under then-president Barack Obama to focus on deep space missions, the country’s space programme has relied on hitching rides with Russian flights, at a growing cost.
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