SpaceX attempts historic rocket launch with two astronauts

Two astronauts boarded the International Space Station.

Two astronauts from the US space agency NASA set sail for the International Space Station on Saturday on a rocket from the US spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. This is the first time an astronaut has been sent into the spacecraft of a privately owned company. This marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of space travel.

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It took off from the 39A pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. This is the first spaceflight from American soil in the last decade with astronauts. The two astronauts on the Falcon 9 rocket are Robert Benken and Douglas Harley.

"Let's light the candle," said Harley, the mission commander at SpaceX Mission Control in California at 3:22 p.m. local time. It will take 19 hours to reach the space station.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said: “A dream come true for me and for everyone at SpaceX. The mission is called 'Demo-2'. The field of space travel came to an end with this incident. The SpaceX crew will receive NASA certification through the Dragon capsule before space travel with regular passengers. This is the last experimental journey before that.

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Benken(49) and Harley(53) joined NASA in 2000 as former military test pilots. They will be joined by astronauts Chris Cassidy and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner on the International Space Station. They will conduct research and other work with the space station crew as well as test on the crew dragon.

Earlier, the US science journal Nature reported that the launch of the SpaceX spacecraft would mark the first US astronaut launch in nearly a decade. The space shuttle closed in 2011. Since then, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), like other space research organizations, has relied on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, designed in the 1960s, to send astronauts to the International Space Station.

Since last year, SpaceX's 'Crew Dragon' capsule has been working to bring and take cargo to and from the International Space Station.

NASA and SpaceX suspended two astronauts from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday due to bad weather.

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