NASA officials and others held out hope the flight would would be a morale-booster. People view the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral on Saturday. over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. The mission unfolded amid the gloom of the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed over 100,000 Americans, and racial unrest across the U.S. The two men are scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station, 400 kilometres above Earth, on Sunday for a stay of up to four months, after which they will come home with a Right Stuff-style splashdown at sea. "Let's light this candle," Hurley said just before ignition, borrowing the words used by Alan Shepard on America's first human spaceflight, in 1961. Minutes later, they slipped safely into orbit. local time from the same launch pad used to send Apollo crews to the moon a half-century ago. NASA's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode skyward aboard a white-and-black, bullet-shaped Dragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off at 3:22 p.m. soil for the first time in nearly a decade. back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from U.S.
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the U.S.
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