This Wednesday, SpaceX will launch, in cooperation with NASA, a rocket with two astronauts. A first since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
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Doug Hurley, 53, and Bob Behnken, 49, are about to write a new page in American space history this Wednesday. At 4:33 p.m. (8:33 p.m. in Switzerland), the two NASA astronauts will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard the Crew Dragon capsule. They will be powered by a Falcon 9 rocket developed by SpaceX, the company of billionaire Elon Musk. (AP Photo / Chris O’Meara)
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Doug Hurley, 53, and Bob Behnken, 49, are about to write a new page in American space history this Wednesday. At 4:33 p.m. (8:33 p.m. in Switzerland), the two NASA astronauts will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard the Crew Dragon capsule. They will be powered by a Falcon 9 rocket developed by SpaceX, the company of billionaire Elon Musk. Nineteen hours later, they were to join two Russian astronauts and an American, who had arrived on board a Russian Soyuz rocket, on the International Space Station.
