SpaceX Makes History Launching All-Civilian Crew Into Orbit

Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX launched four space tourists into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida reaching a new milestone for the space tourism industry. NBC News Correspondent Cal Perry joins MSNBC's Brian Williams to discuss the history-making moment.

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I hate it when they call them tourists. They are raising awareness and funds for St Jude's hospital and actually doing science experiments. It isn't a joy ride.

[Whiteboi_matthew_]

Elon: dose this ⬆️
Jeff: you dare challenge me mortal
Elon: I’m already 4 parallel universes ahead of you

[twstf]

Elon Musk is a genius. 👍

He's likely to be the World's first official Trillionaire, he keeps doing what he's doing. No question.

[jimeagle]

"I was there - on the side of that rocket."
~ Brian Williams

[captainseg]

I was in Hollywood Studios and me and my friends saw the rocket launching. It was such an amazing sight

[seand]

Wow he sounds thrilled about this...lol

[mustardtiger]

so much shade thrown at bezos, and well deserved. what kind of lawsuit can you drum up from this i wonder.

[hankkingsley]

It's actually a crew that is half way between civilians and crew...two are pilots

[CycloneGU]

The Apollo program did have an audience, but not the raucous kind that this one did. There was usually an audience watching the takeoff, often consisting of families and friends.

[seccat]

SpaceX or NBC needs to move their banners

[MyEyesBled]

Elon ... you’re da man! Bozos must be soooo jealous of you now!

[ridgleyhawthorne]

Please forgive me on this commentary on the tourist spaceflight, the first thing I thought of is "I wonder if they are giving out peanuts to the spaceflight tourists..." 🥜🥜🥜...🤦🤣

[springsunshine]

What is the point of this ? These people need to pay more taxes. They sure don't need tax breaks. To many regular citizens can't afford rent or health care....This wrong..

[MichaelBrown-lwzh]

Alien's are saying "earth's not sending their best. They're sending rich brats,
pedophiles, robber barrons and I guess some are good humans"...

[Shakkarz]

I love to see the magic in science it makes people happy you got to move forward I do things do it- and how much is it going to cost to clean up while you're in orbit cuz there's a lot of debris you can probably reuse that debris there was a substance years ago that NASA was using to collect meteorites it's some type of blue jaw I think but if you modify it 100 times bigger probably get some progress

[edsknife]

I swear I remember MSNBC using personal attacks against Elon over what he said about the stock market or cryptocurrency. Maybe I should start questioning how much I like Elon if he's in MSNBC's good graces now. Don't even get me started on SJWs acting like he doesn't deserve his wealth.

[Bootman]

Meanwhile Besos cries and rips apart stuffed animals while filing his next lawsuit

[pauldebnam]

I watched Machete kills a 2013 film on sky last night where Elon Musk sends a civilian in space....very strange coincidence!

[dkidde]

Brian Williams 👎 this is history in the making why wouldn't you have a audience? If they are not doing any" real work " then what does Brian Williams do ?

[bobt]

I like how they keep mentioning st Jude. I think I would rather give the 100 million + to them instead of orbit the earth a few times. Just like when I go to mcds and they want me to donate instead of using their own millions