Watch historic SpaceX first crewed launch
May 30, 2020 - Watch the historic moment when SpaceX successfully launched two NASA astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, to the International Space Station. The mission marks the first time in nearly a decade that a crewed journey into space will lift off from a launch pad in the United States—and the first time a private spaceflight company has used its own rocket and spacecraft design to fling humans into orbit.
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[Man] Joint tanks pressing for flight.
[Woman] B-line 15 seconds.
ten,
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three,
two,
one,
zero.
Ignition.
Liftoff of the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon!
Go NASA!
Go SpaceX!
Godspeed, Bob and Doug!
[Christine] God speed indeed.
[Man] Vehicle pitching down range.
[Christine] Emotional moment for you right now, Cady.
[Man] Spade one propulsion now is nominal.
(rocket roaring and crackling)
[Cady] People on the ground would hear that, feel that.
[Man] Falcon power 1-T nominal.
[Man] And 1-T throttle down.
(rocket roaring and crackling)
[News Anchor Man] Cady and
Christine, as we watch this
I'm just thinking about what Bob Behnken
told his family just before they left,
"Let's light that candle."
Because you see that big beautiful rocket,
clear blue skies, and just headed straight on it's mission.
(rocket roaring and crackling)
[Man] And 1-T throttle up.
[Christine] Hope triumphs over fear
in a time where our country needs it,
needs to be reminded of that.
[Cady] And down on the ground
they can actually feel, you can physically feel
that crackling that we hear, you can physically feel that.
