History has been made. 🚀 NASA and SpaceX teams have successfully launched humans into space– the first time since 2011 that the United States has launched astronauts into space from U.S. soil.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A pillar of fire tore through the skies above Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, as NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned to space on a historic mission nearly a decade in the making.
Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian spaceships launched from Kazakhstan to take U.S. astronauts to and from the space station.The launch followed days of concern about weather conditions and a scrubbed launch Wednesday. Weather is a difficult obstacle because teams can't extend a window and wait for the weather to improve. The requirement for Falcon 9 to launch exactly on time is due to orbital mechanics, as the Crew Dragon capsule has to "catch up" with the ISS, which is traveling at 17,000 mph about 250 miles above Earth.
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