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“Our former leaders have pushed us into a situation where sending astronauts into space depended on other countries. Now it’s over, “he told NASA staff in Florida.” The decades during which we just wasted time and did next to nothing (in space – Interfax) are now officially a thing of the past. “
Trump recalled that the earliest Saturday the United States sent an “American astronaut rocket from US territory” to the International Space Station.
The new SpaceX spacecraft, piloted by the Americans, Crew Dragon with two astronauts, successfully launched into orbit for a test flight. The spacecraft was launched by the Falcon 9 rocket launcher from a spaceport in Cape Canavere, Florida.
It was the first since 2011 when the reusable spacecraft program, an American manned spacecraft launched from US territory, was discontinued.
VIDEO: See a historic mission: American astronauts successfully take off at SpaceX
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