SpaceX launched NASA astronauts into space for the first time on Saturday — the company’s first human passengers and the first time people have ever flown a commercially developed spaceship.
This mission was the product of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, a partnership between the space agency and two private companies (Boeing is the other) to build spaceships that can ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It was the first time the US  launch its own astronauts from American soil since 2011.
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