Sunday, April 19, 2020

We Have Liftoff (Or We Will Soon)

There's busting out of quarantine, and then there's busting out of quarantine. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to fly aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon craft and rendezvous with the International Space Station on May 27.

The privately-funded launch vehicle will be the first time the United States has put human beings into space since the space shuttle Atlantis took off in July of 2011. Since then, we've been hitching rides.

Elon Musk may be kind of a twerp, but his company is the one that will let the only nation to have ever landed people on the moon get back into space on our own. I'll settle for that.

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