NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on their way to Pad 39-A, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. The two astronauts will fly on a SpaceX test flight to the International Space Station. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts will blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company.
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken reported that the capsule was performing beautifully, as they closed in for the docking. The gleaming white capsule was easily visible from the station, its nose cone open exposing its docking hook, as the two spacecraft zoomed a few miles apart above the Atlantic, then Africa, then Asia.
SpaceX launched the Dragon from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon, the first astronaut launch to orbit from the U.S. in nearly a decade. Thousands jammed surrounding beaches, bridges and towns to watch as Elon Musk’s company ended a nine-year launch drought for NASA in spectacular fashion. In a show-and-tell earlier Sunday morning, the astronauts gave a quick tour of the Dragon’s sparkling clean insides, quite spacious for a capsule. They said the liftoff was pretty bumpy and dynamic, nothing the simulators could have mimicked.
waste of $$ , it is paid by tax payers anyway
Why the fuck is Ted Cruz there? 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
You forgot to add: USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS!
Boots on the ground in 2024
And will corporations behave as irresponsibly in space as they have on the planet? No, not at all glad that private corporations are now leading our interests in space.
Doug & Bob said they seen a lot of fires last night.....
Welfare for the rich.
Elon Musk spacesuit looks, quite simple and quite comfy for astronauts.The capsule interior design is like old hollywood scifi, quite simple with the electonic touch screens instead of those complicate mechanic swirches.NASA should pay big bonus for this great milestone.
So exciting to leave the 3rd rock and stupid people destroying life. Fun to imagine taking a spaceflight!
And we thank OBAMA for this. See Space Program of the Barack Obama administration - Wikipedia. Thank you Barack Obama for Bringing back American Rockets to Lanch HEAVY LIFT SPACE VEHICLES! GLAD to see Pence and Trump went to see the Lanch. That’s all they did! Maddow TrumpGate
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This is great. Too bad it's being overshadowed by Trump's numerous failures!
Those suits are so damn cool! spacesuits spacex nasa
Read the room, elonmusk. We're kinda having an anti-capitalist moment right now.
WHO FUCKING CARES. FIX THE PROBLEMS HERE ON EARTH. sickening waste of money and resources
Don’t care
SpaceX has delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station, 19 hours after liftoff. SpaceX launched the Dragon from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon, the first astronaut launch from the U.S. in nearly a decade.
Ok the helmets are sweet looking but the rest of the suit looks like dr. Evils suit...
Can’t stop thinking about it...
Was great to watch it! 👍
God forbid, that would dock..
Better than relying on russia
Good luck!
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A proud moment & is shadowed by stupid protesting in our country, during COVID19. We Americans don't deserve to live. Too much freedom.
Although the launch is more dangerous, the docking is in my opinion much more exciting.
What’s so historic abt this shit. It’s only a commercial travel for rich people paying 90 million to go and be back from the space station. It’s called space travel. Come now. Stop this BS and enough is enough. I want to breathe.
What would happen if elonmusk commandeers the space station & takes it over and declares he now owns it? What options would 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇪🇺 have to take it back? I have not heard of this scenario. Would they shoot it down would would they pay a ransom, would Elon destroy other 🛰
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
My daughter upon watching launch. “Are those robots?”
One step closer to getting elonmusk off the planet!
No one cares
Trump has warned China will not exist in the Map if it was 'knowingly..responsible' For the novel coronavirus Covid_19
I like the uniforms. Quite modern. The boots are a nice touch. Where can I get a pair? At the Tesla dealer?
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