SpaceX Launches First Operational Mission to International Space Station

SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company.

The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and one Japanese, the second crew to be launched by SpaceX.

The Dragon capsule on top, named Resilience by its crew in light of this year's many challenges, most notably Covid-19, was due to reach the space station late Monday and remain there until spring.

Sidelined by the virus himself, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk was forced to monitor the action from afar.

He tweeted that he "most likely" had a moderate case of Covid-19.

NASA policy at Kennedy Space Center requires anyone testing positive for coronavirus to quarantine and remain isolated.

Sunday's launch follows by just a few months SpaceX's two-pilot test flight.

It kicks off what NASA hopes will be a long series of crew rotations between the US and the space station, after years of delay.

More people means more science research at the orbiting lab, according to officials.

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[pokerace]

I'm and since I've been born we have never sent a man outside the earth's but we did back in the 60s....lmao

[alexwhite]

One of the most amazing things I've ever watch.

[ayPersonality]

Auto-generated captions at 1:16: “Falcon has passed through and that’s cute ❤️”

[LaurenMiddleton]

Its crazy that we haven't been allowed out of low earth orbit since the Early 70's.. Hopefully we can negotiate a treaty to have Astronauts head to the moon again or better yet mars.

[VelleoTheGray]

So amazing 👏 I can't believe that humanity with everything that is happening can progress with breakthroughs in science and technology and keep advancing our species too new heights thank you for your hard work 🙏 keep it up!

[PapiCee]

International space station where is this located??🙋‍♂️

[NiteStorm]

I knew elon musk would be better than Jeff bezos

[lursivgg]

Those guys are the 3 luckiest people alive. Away from covid, away from everything.

[noneofyourbusiness]

what an adventure this should been on hallowern blue moon night

[mrwillham]

People commenting trump an biden stuff an im here like wow.. the actual people who put this together an the men on that ship are spectacular models of human intelligence.. unlike biden and trump

[axisgalaxis]

Yep we are about to take our place in d heavens! Exciting time!

[wakka_wakka]

Elon gonna ditch us the moment it's possible.

[aperson]

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[cellogirlrw]

27, 000kph!! 😱 That's unbelievable!

[pantallygilka]

Look at it realisticly how much did this cost. Billions this money should be given to those people who are jobless homeless from Spending money on space travel when people are suffering

[MonsieurDrobot]

Sci Fi propaganda for the deluded masses✅

[donnyvu]

This is dumb. The first black astronaut went to space with his sleeve roll up, watch on his wrist, his helmet not connected to any oxygen tank and did it with less technology than my phone. Why is this so fake. Bring back the 80s.

[rosaliemolinas]

They will stop you. Your not wanted up there. The barrier is up. Turn back.

[elenagava]

wow is this jeff bezos ? he got his cut tax, ?

[trevordezsnatzz]

go trump 👏 Deadpool says it should have been named XFORCE