NASA uses SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch US astronauts into space from US soil for the first time in nearly 9 years, since the last space shuttle mission.
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The flight, known as Crew Dragon Demo-2, bridges the gap left behind by the space shuttle program's final flight in July 2011. It's the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit — and the first time in nearly a decade that the United States has launched astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil. 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.
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Tight work‼️
That’s so freaking COOOL!!!!!
In awe – very cool. Congratulations USA. Go you good thing.
those space suits are like something out of science fiction..kudos
They won’t use them in space
They looked like something a jiffy lube dude would wear…
Godspeed
About damn time 🙄
my mum and dad and me and my friend were waiting to see this launch and we thought we would be able to see it going to the moon with our HUGE binoculars well done USA
👍
Is it just me or was there something weird on the Falcon landing… with a Signal Lost before that… It just appeared landed…
SpaceX rocket successfully launches.
Liberals howl and moan into the sky.
Godspeed!
HOSERS “Bob & Doug” McKenzie from the Saturday Night Live TV show are on their way to the international space station with nothing but a cargo bay filled with 2-4’s of beer!
CBS missed the shot of stage 1 landing….
Get me outta here!
It’s been 11 years and people are in space again
secret feed from Boeing’s CEO’s office, “This isn’t as important as my BONUS CHECK, I should get a double check, triple check just because.
Go USA! Go NASA! With love from Ukraine.
My only question is……will they be able to stream space force from there?
At one point it looked like a light saber
I was gonna see this today but I was gone and I didn’t get to see it