SpaceX Takes Giant Leap With Launch Of NASA Astronauts

May 26, 2020
Elon Musk, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, and NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, center, and Bob Behnken talked on March 1, 2019, before the Demo-1 mission.
Credit: NASA
The story of SpaceX’s path to human spaceflight begins, of course, with Elon Musk, who is now deep in the design and testing of a spaceship to colonize Mars. That project may sound audacious, but 12 years ago, watching Musk’s Falcon 1 rockets blow up over Omelek Island in the Marshall Islands’...

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