WATCH: SpaceX and NASA launch historic first crewed mission to the ISS from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
“It was incredible," Behnken said from orbit."Appreciate all the hard work and thanks for the great ride to space."
Astronauts have not launched into space from the U.S. since the agency shuttered its space shuttle program nine years ago. SpaceX’s much-anticipated launch has been heralded as the start of a new era of human spaceflight — one that involves NASA contracting out routine flights to the space station to private companies while the agency focuses on other science and exploration goals.
The test flight is the last major milestone for SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, a joint public-private partnership to develop new spacecraft for trips into low-Earth orbit. Since the end of the space shuttle program, NASA has spent more than $80 million per seat to hitch rides to the space station aboard Russian capsules and rockets.
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