This is the first time that SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is attempting to launch astronauts into space.
President Donald Trump said he will travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to attend the historic NASA and SpaceX launch next week, local outlet WESH-TV reported.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are slated to launch inside SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spaceship atop a Falcon 9 rocket on May 27. According to Politico, Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida urged Trump to attend. Waltz said Trump was"fired up" after a discussion they had on"the importance of the event to the evolution of the US space program," Politico reported.
The astronauts will live on the space station for about three months, then return to Earth in a space capsule, and finally parachute into the Atlantic Ocean, Business Insider reported.
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