Also Read: Resilience: Nasa, SpaceX send four astronauts to International Space Station aboard Falcon 9Sidelined by the virus himself, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk was forced to monitor the action from afar. With Covid-19 still surging, NASA continued the safety precautions put in place for SpaceX’s crew launch in May. Even the two astronauts on the first SpaceX crew flight stayed behind at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The four astronauts will be joining two Russians and one American who flew to the space station last month from Kazakhstan. NASA turned to private companies to haul cargo and crew to the space station, after the shuttle fleet retired in 2011.

Source: Hindustan Times November 16, 2020 01:17 UTC