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The USA is back!
April 17, 2020
By Jennifer Leman
May 27. (click here) That's the tentative date that NASA will send astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. If all goes according to plan, they will launch at 4:32 p.m. from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency announced April 14.
It will be the first time American astronauts will be launched aboard an American-built rocket from American soil since the final launch of the space shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts currently grab a lift to the ISS aboard Roscosmos' Soyuz rockets, which launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....
