Two American astronauts embarked on the first manned mission to outer space from U.S. soil in nearly a decade on Saturday, formally ushering in a new era of space flight in which private companies — not the government — will send humans into orbit. Aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule are astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken, two veterans of the now-retired Space Shuttle Program who are set for an extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Exactly how long they will stay has yet to be determined. The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday afternoon but was scrubbed shortly before it was slated to take off due to weather concerns, hours after Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall in South Carolina, hundreds of miles north of Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. You can read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/499759-spacex-launches-first-manned-space-flight-from-us-in-nearly-a-decade #LaunchAmerica
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