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NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the first astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade on May 27

"We are following CDC [Centers for Disease Control] recommendations for infection control to minimize the risk of exposure to astronauts in training, as well as all NASA employees," Josh Finch, a spokesperson at NASA headquarters in Washington DC, told Business Insider in March. He added that NASA is also "limiting contact with crew members" like Behnken and Hurley to reduce their exposure risk to COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus.

If Crew Dragon proves to be a relatively safe vehicle to fly people into orbit, a company called Axiom Space, which was co-founded by a former NASA crewed spaceflight manager, aims toFor his part, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sounded excited yet exasperated about the time it's taken for his rocket company to arrive at this critical juncture.on Friday. "Technology must advance faster or there will be no city on the red planet in our lifetime.

Musk is pursuing such a city on Mars through the development of an enormous, low-cost, and rapidly and fully reusable launch system called Starship at a nascent development, test, and launch site in South Texas.NASA is hiring astronauts to go to the moon and Mars. The agency's selection manager says she looks for these 5 qualities in candidates.

 

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