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Spacex launched nasa astronauts into space for the first time on saturday — the company's first human passengers and the first time people have ever nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley float into the international space station on may 31, 2020, after riding spacex's crew dragon. That left spacex, which also had encountered problems in developing its spacecraft, in the lead to be first to launch with astronauts on board. Watch historic spacex first crewed launch.
A new era in the american space program is set to begin as two veteran nasa astronauts lift off aboard a spacex crew dragon en route to the international space station — but not quite as soon as originally planned.
The stakes have never been higher for elon musk's spacex. Congratulations to nasa and spacex on today's launch. The launch also represents the first time nasa has launched its own astronauts since the end of the space shuttle program nearly a decade. .spacex launched four astronauts on a flight to the international space station on sunday that was one heck of a ride, astronaut mike hopkins said from crew dragon to spacex mission control about golf:
