Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending the U.S. space agency's nine-year hiatus in human spaceflight.
FILE PHOTO: The crew access arm is swung into position to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 21, 2020. NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.
California-based SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and its Falcon 9 rocket is due to lift off at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday from the same launch pad used by NASA’s last space shuttle mission in 2011. For Musk, SpaceX and NASA, a safe flight would mark a milestone in the quest to produce reusable spacecraft that can make space travel more affordable. Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Inc.
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