CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Thousands of people gathered to witness history as two NASA astronauts blasted off from the Space Coast Saturday afternoon on a SpaceX rocket, marking the first crewed flight to lift off from U.S.
soil since 2011 and the first-ever crewed flight aboard a commercially made spacecraft. [RETURN TO SPACE: SpaceX launches astronauts into orbit, returning human spaceflight to Florida] The man behind the historic Demo-2 mission, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, sat down with News 6 space expert and anchor and reporter Erik von Ancken to talk about the milestone in U.S.
spaceflight. According to Musk, the job wasn’t done once the rocket was off the ground. Veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley still had to dock