SpaceX’s historic manned flight will continue despite pandemic

NASA and SpaceX said yesterday that they were pushing with plans to launch astronauts into space from the United States’ soil for the first time in nearly a decade later this month, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, both veterans of the space shuttle program that was closed in 2011, will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 27.