SpaceX Succeeds at Becoming First Private Company to Send Humans to Space

SpaceX has just become the first private firm to successfully launch humans into orbit. Taking place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Falcon 9-powered Crew Dragon SpaceX capsule carried both long-standing NASA astronauts Robert (Bob) Behnken and Douglas Hurley. This launch will be the first time in almost a decade that American astronauts have traveled to space; NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 after a 30-year run. This launch also gave space enthusiasts one of the clearest ...