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Bob and Doug’s excellent journey. – The New York Times
They went to the space station in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, launching a new era of human spaceflight.
Two NASA astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time that people headed to orbit in an American rocket launching from the United States since the previous space shuttle mission, in 2011.
More remarkable was the rocket and the capsule, which was designed and operated not by NASA but by a private company: Elon Musks SpaceX. Mr. Behnken and Mr. Hurley named the capsule Endeavour, a tip of the hat to the former space…
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