SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agencyâs commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.
NASA and SpaceX will launch the first astronauts to space from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken are set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EST.