Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency were due to launch into space on October 31, as part of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission. NASA said: “Following the launch, the Crew-1 astronauts are scheduled to arrive at the space station for a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.”This is a historic launch, according to NASA. Back in May, astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were launched to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While astronauts are regularly launched from Earth to the International Space Station, these launches don’t usually take place in the US. It also marked the first time that humans were launched into space on a SpaceX rocket.

Source: Daily Mirror October 12, 2020 08:03 UTC