Yesterday, at 15h22 EST, we witnessed history. The first humans sent to space from US soil since 2011, the first humans sent to space by a privately owned company, and all that at costs defying everything we've known since the first ever manned flight in 1961.
SpaceX was created in 2002 by Elon Musk (father of Paypal, Tesla, Hyperloop, Solar, the Boring Company...) with the ultimate goal of colonising Mars by reducing space transportation costs drastically, especially thanks to the technology they developed and mastered allowing them to have rocket launchers fly back to Earth and land safely in order to be reused.
Crew Demo-2 departed in a Falcon 9 rocket from legendary Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (that has seen so many great space adventures depart Earth), with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard it. The main mission of this flight it to complete the validation of human spaceflight operations using SpaceX hardware, from launching to landing, and everything in between. They will dock on the ISS 19 hours after launching, so later today (May 31, 2020), and stay aboard it for 30 to 90 days, coming back to Earth no later than late August.
If you want to watch the launch again, or watch as they dock onto the ISS around 10am EST:
Godspeed Bob and Doug!
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