CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A manned SpaceX rocket lifted off Saturday afternoon sending two astronauts into space for the first time from the U.S. in almost a decade.
This was the second launch attempt this week.
After arriving to the launchpad in a gullwing Tesla, Veteran astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ascended the 260-foot Falcon 9 rocket and were catapulted into space at 3:22 p.m.
Hurley and Behnken will fly 250 million miles to the International Space Station in the first launch of astronauts by a private company.
Wednesday’s launch was halted at just under 17 minutes because of the threat of lightning.
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