Nasa and SpaceX are jointly launching astronauts into the space

On May, 27 history will be written as both Nasa and SpaceX are launching astronauts into space. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first to orbit in the space. The mission is a demonstration of what to come in the future and is called Demo-2. SpaceX Dragon Spaceship will be used in this mission, this spaceship was in development for eight consecutive years. Both the astronauts have been isolating themselves amid the coronavirus, but in the space, they don’t have to care for that anymore. This will be the first launch in 9 years from the U.S soil, the mission will leave from the Kennedy space centre. The Falcon 9 rocket is 23 stories, and the astronauts will board the new Dragon spaceship from there.

This mission is also a part of joint public and private companies program that is made to revive American aviation and flight capabilities. NASA was relying on Russian rockets in order to travel to and from the ISS, because its fleet retired in 2011. Although NASA locked down its premises, it carried on the mission that is very important for the United States to move forward. Elon musk was also excited, but he said that it took them 18 years to send the first humans into space and to orbit around the red planet. Elon Musk also stated that technology has to be advanced in a faster fashion, else we have no place to live on Mars. He is pursuing to build a city on Mars, and he wants low-cost flights to send humans on Mars as tourists also.