– A major turning point – VG

The target is the international space station ISS, and the trip with the space capsule, which has been called “Resilience”, will last about 27 hours.

This is the first time that SpaceX has taken an entire team of NASA astronauts on a trip to space. This is also the second time in history that the Falcon rocket has been used to send people, writes the BBC.

Did you bring it with you? Launch of SpaceX’s First Manned Rocket

The launch took place at 01.27 on Monday evening Norwegian time. and SpaceX reports on Twitter that things have gone, and are going, according to plan.

Spaceflight is a great victory for the United States, which since 2011 has sent its astronauts into space from Russia. Phil McAlister, head of NASA’s commercial space development program, currently calls it a milestone, writes CNBC:

– It may not seem so big right now, but in 20 years I think we will see this moment as a major turning point in our exploration and exploitation of space.

The four astronauts on the space flight are NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Jaxa Soichi Noguchi.

Once there, they will spend about six months on the space station. Here there are already an American astronaut from NASA and two astronauts from Russian Roscosmos.

NASA and the Kennedy Center broadcast directly during the astronauts’ journey to the space station. Follow the journey here:

Trump and Biden congratulate

US Vice President Mike Pence was present at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the launch, writes the AP news agency.

“I didn’t start breathing until about a minute after it took off,” Pence said as he visited the control room to congratulate them on the successful launch.

President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that the launch was great.

– NASA was nearing disaster when we took over. It is now again the “hottest” and most advanced space center in the world, he writes, adding that it lags far behind the competition.

US President-Elect Joe Biden also congratulates NASA and SpaceX on the successful launch:

– This is a testament to how powerful science is and what we can achieve by harnessing our innovation, ingenuity and determination. I am with all Americans and Japanese in wishing the astronauts good luck on their journey, he writes on Twitter.

Elon Musk is not present

SpaceX is the first private company to launch astronauts into space. NASA has invested a lot of money in the company and its goal is to use the private sector to make it cheaper to send people into space, writes CNBC.

However, SpaceX chief Elon Musk was probably not present during the launch at the Kennedy Center in Florida: he said on Saturday that he probably has a mild version of the covid-19 disease, and comments on the successful launch of the following. way:

The development of SpaceX has been going on for a long time. In March 2017, for the first time, they managed to get a launch vehicle back to Earth on its own, after several failed attempts and explosions.

Since then, they have been transporting satellites into space, but the plan has always been to transport humans. However, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal is not the space station – he wants to go to Mars. In 2016, he said the plan is to send humans to Mars by 2024.