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UPDATE 1-Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump’s reaction ‘hysteria’ SpaceX

UPDATE 1-Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump’s reaction ‘hysteria’

* Human spaceflight resumed from U.S. soil after hiatus * Move ended Russian monopoly on flights to space station * Moscow welcomes move, but questions Trump’s reaction (Adds Roscosmos chief comments) By Maria Kiselyova and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, May 31 (Reuters) - Russia’s space agency criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
bubmag
May 31, 2020
Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station SpaceX

Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station

Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have been in flight on orbit since launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday at 3:22 PM…
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May 31, 2020
Russian space agency calls Trump’s reaction to SpaceX launch “hysteria” SpaceX

Russian space agency calls Trump’s reaction to SpaceX launch “hysteria”

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s space agency criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “hysteria” about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space. SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur…
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May 31, 2020