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(Sterling, Va.) — President Donald Trump plans to be on the Florida cruise Wednesday to leer American astronauts blast into orbit from the Kennedy Home Center for the major time in additional than a decade.
This would be the major time for the rationale that dwelling shuttle program resulted in 2011 that U.S. astronauts will beginning into dwelling aboard an American rocket from American soil.
Also unique Wednesday: a non-public company — now not NASA — is running the pronounce.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the conductor and NASA the client as businesses launch chauffeuring astronauts to the World Home Situation.
The NASA/SpaceX Business Crew flight take a look at beginning will carry NASA’s most contemporary take a look at pilots, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, in a SpaceX Crew Dragon pill on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
They’re scheduled to blast off from beginning pad 39A, the same one the Apollo astronauts venerable to accept to the moon.
The shift to deepest companies enables NASA to zero in on deep dwelling sail back and forth. The dwelling company is working to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 below orders from the White Home, but that closing date seems extra and additional unlikely whilst three newly chosen commercial groups plug to manufacture lunar landers. Mars also beckons.
The White Home portrayed the beginning as an extension of Trump’s promise to reassert American dominance in dwelling. He now not too lengthy in the past oversaw creation of the Home Power because the sixth department of the military.
“Our destiny, beyond the Earth, is now not handiest a matter of national identification, but a matter of national security,” Trump acknowledged in a assertion.
Vice President Mike Pence, who’s chairman of the Nationwide Home Council, also plans to abet Wednesday’s beginning.
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