SpaceX Crew Demo-1 lifts off on historic mission

The United States took a major step toward returning to manned spaceflight as SpaceX's Crew Demo-1 mission lifted off today at 2:49 am EST (07:49 GMT) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The demonstration flight is unmanned, but carries a test dummy as the spacecraft heads for a Sunday rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS).

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