Wondering what SpaceX has been up to these days? Well, on May 27, it will be sending two American Astronauts to the International Space Station! This is the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade.
The US space agency had been aiming to conduct the crewed mission in May and is sticking with the plan despite the global coronavirus pandemic.
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the ISS on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft also built by SpaceX, the company founded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
They will lift off at 16:32 local time (20:32 UTC) on May 27 from historic launch pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and space shuttle missions, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.
Image by NASA via Wikimedia Commons
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