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SpaceX launches first NASA astronauts to fly from US since shuttle [i]In a sight that has been absent for nearly a decade, a rocket carrying NASA astronauts launched from the United States, beginning a new era of American human spaceflight. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday (May 30), on a test flight to the International Space Station. The two crew members became the first U.S. astronauts to enter Earth orbit from U.S. soil since the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program nine years ago this July. Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Behnken and Hurley took flight at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[/i]
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