Trump to travel to Florida to attend SpaceX launch
Pence: America is leading in space once again
Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks at the seventh meeting of the National Space Council at NASA headquarters and discusses the launch of Space Force.
President Trump will travel to Florida for the historic SpaceX launch next week, the White House said Friday.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are being prepared for a historic Demo-2 mission on Wednesday, which will launch NASA astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011.
It will be the first time a private company, rather than the national government, sends astronauts into orbit. It will also be only the fifth time in U.S. history that NASA astronauts will fly a new spacecraft for the first time.
“A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin,” NASA said in a statement.
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