astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule,
lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape
Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. (Chris O’Meara/The Associated
Press)
* ‘Let’s light this candle,’ commander Doug Hurley said just
before liftoff
A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company
has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the
International Space Station.
The spacecraft took off Saturday afternoon from the same launch
pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., that was used during the Apollo
missions to the moon a half-century ago.
The flight ushers in a new era in commercial space travel and
marks the first time NASA has launched astronauts from U.S. soil in
nearly a decade.
“Let’s light this candle,” commander Doug Hurley said just
before liftoff.
Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has
relied on Russian rockets launched from Kazakhstan to take U.S.
astronauts to and from the space station
astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule,
lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape
Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. (Chris O’Meara/The Associated
Press)
* ‘Let’s light this candle,’ commander Doug Hurley said just
before liftoff
A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company
has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the
International Space Station.
The spacecraft took off Saturday afternoon from the same launch
pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., that was used during the Apollo
missions to the moon a half-century ago.
The flight ushers in a new era in commercial space travel and
marks the first time NASA has launched astronauts from U.S. soil in
nearly a decade.
“Let’s light this candle,” commander Doug Hurley said just
before liftoff.
Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has
relied on Russian rockets launched from Kazakhstan to take U.S.
astronauts to and from the space station