Here's How The Pandemic Is Changing America's Plans For Its Newest Spaceship
Later this week, NASA and SpaceX will launch the first rocket carrying astronauts from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle era. But COVID-19 has forced some changes to their plans.
by Geoff Brumfiel
May 25, 2020
2 minutes
This week, NASA and the commercial company SpaceX are set to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a new capsule. This is the first launch by NASA of astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, but it's happening in the middle of a pandemic.
Here are some of the ways that the
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