For the first time in history, a private company has launched people to orbit from U.S. soil.
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday,
NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode skyward aboard a white-and-black, bullet-shaped Dragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off at 3:22 p.m. from the same launch pad used to send Apollo crews to the moon a half-century ago. Minutes later, they slipped safely into orbit.