· NASA and SpaceX launched astronauts into space from American soil for the first time in almost 10 years today.
· Since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, NASA has relied on the Russian space program's shuttles to get American astronauts up to the International Space Station — a necessity for furthering...
Why NASA waited nearly a decade to send astronauts into space from the US
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