The U.S. returns to space Wednesday, but the flight’s significance goes beyond patriotic notions.
in 2011 after 135 flights. Since then, the agency has relied on its partnership with Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, to ferry American astronauts to the orbiting outpost — an arrangement with a whopping price tag of more than $80 million per seat. But NASA may soon have other options.
If the launch is successful, the astronaut duo will spend about 19 hours orbiting Earth before attempting to rendezvous and dock at the space station at 11:29 a.m. ET Thursday. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission on May 21, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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