For the first time in the United States, a public-private partnership has sent a human into space and two astronauts have left for the International Space Station on a rocket developed by the SpaceX company.
NASA astronauts have launched missions in private space vehicles, and SpaceX has become the first private company to send NASA astronauts into space.
Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will arrive at the space station on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time. This is the first time since 2011 that the US has been able to land astronauts on the ISS.
SpaceX in collaboration with NASA has sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and the project is named SpaceX Demo-2.
The two astronauts left the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 12:00 PST last night and will arrive at the space station around 3:00 p.m. today.
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are the most experienced astronauts working for NASA and have already traveled to space twice before. He was selected for the said mission in 2000.
The two astronauts will stay on the ISS for three months, during which project managers will observe the spacecraft’s performance.
The hardware for this project has been developed by SpaceX, but funding has been provided by NASA under its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). NASA has also planned to set foot on the moon again in 2024 under low-cost flights.
The SpaceX rocket company has previously been working on the delivery of essential goods to the International Space Station and now this company will also carry astronauts to the space station.
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2024-08-20 09:31:20