NASA SpaceX launch

by Ahana Gandhi

On May 30, 2020 SpaceX successfully launched the first crewed test flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, carried two NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to ISS making it the first manned spacecraft operated by a commercial provider. The spacecraft docked on to the ISS on May 31, 2020 where Hurley and Behnken worked with the crew of Expedition 63 for 62 days. Endeavour undocked on Aug 1, 2020 and returned to Earth on Aug 2, 2020.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace technology company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.

 

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