SpaceX lift off sending four astronauts to ISS on historic mission

SPACEX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday night while Elon Musk appears to have been sidelined by the coronavirus.

Crew-1 was launched by the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:27 p.m., marking an important step in NASA’s plans to turn certain spaceflight duties over to private companies.

The International Space Station is set to receive SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on Monday.

The Dragon capsule is the first spacecraft privately owned and operated to receive certification from NASA for human spaceflight. SpaceX received the important certification just days ago.

It remains the only spacecraft currently capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the Space Station.

Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, apparently did not attend the launch after he tweeted this weekend he “most likely” has a moderate case of Covid-19.

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[ribbitism]

NASA: sooo.. we need 17 billion a year and, no, we still can't make it back to the moon
Elon: hold my tesla key

[CJ]

Did they ask the astronauts to wave like aliens?

[ominojaku]

I like the actors new “space” suits, they look a lot easier to remove when they reach the film studio

[JoeBlue]

Lmao! to anybody who thinks those space suits actually work in space.... They look like Thunderbirds...

[digbysirchickentf]

The guinea pigs didn't look very happy.

[OE-vcsi]

Astronauts outfit looks not convincing...hahaha

[spana]

I’ve been asked to go on the next launch and I will be mostly wearing flip flops and speedos

[marttull]

Funny they never have a front facing camera eh.

[nicolej]

I thought this was a parody for a moment. Makes NASA look like a joke.

[adronias]

Elon Musk ratcheting up the size of his flame throwers.

[andreakola]

They only thing they are gonna explore is their imagination,

[SM-prqt]

Oh but i cant walk down to the local Nisa without getting fines for

[cragerzz]

Of course one was black. Thats a diversity box ticked pfffft

[kubbakubbz]

Wait.. how are they gonna know who’s sus?

[andriuss]

Plot twist: It's actually robots with human face holograms

[vincentrobinson]

They are peddling a purple dinosaur stuffed cresture. Space x has a whole line of toys 🧸.

[shimmy]

What were those waves?? Kinda like they were robots🤣

[deez]

This isn’t nothing like the last one lol

[sreno]

Got to be real cus it looks so obviously fake.

[peterah]

Yeah it's pretty cool and all, but why do we put so much money and effort into exploring space when there are millions starving on the ground who could use this money and effort.