NASA astronauts are heading to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nine years aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
The mission marks the first time NASA has sent astronauts into space from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle program in 2011. For nearly a decade, it has been relying on Russian Soyuz rockets to get them there. It is also a first for SpaceX, which has ambitions of someday taking paying customers zooming around the Earth.
"I'm really quite overcome with emotion on this day, so it's kind of hard to talk, frankly," he said.
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