CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the International Space Station. The flight ushers in a new era in commercial space travel and marks the first time NASA has launched astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade. Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets launched from Kazakhstan to take US astronauts took and from the space station. Earlier the two NASA astronauts climbed into their capsule for a second attempt at a history-making ride into orbit aboard a rocket ship designed and built by SpaceX company. It brings a lot of people together.”NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 to taxi astronauts to and from the space station, under contracts totaling $7 billion.

Source: Ethiopian News May 30, 2020 18:22 UTC