Why the SpaceX NASA Mission is a Landmark For Astronaut Spaceflight

Not only is this the first time a commercial company is sending people into space, it is also the first crewed mission to the International Space Station to be launched from American soil in 9 years since the Space Shuttle was decommissioned. On the 27th of May SpaceX will make spaceflight history by being the first commercial company to transport humans to the ISS on a Falcon9 rocket in the SpaceX Dragon Crew spacecraft. This is the beginning of commercial spaceflight and potentially the beginning of space tourism. #spacex #NASA #DomainOfScience --- Credits -- NASA image and Video library https://images.nasa.gov/ Music: Verified Picasso by Scary Island, Song of Sadhana and Spenta Mainyu by Jesse Gallagher. If you’d like to support my free educational content: https://www.patreon.com/domainofscience --- Posters ---- DFTBA Store: https://store.dftba.com/collections/domain-of-science RedBubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DominicWalliman I have also made posters available for educational use which you can find here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/ -- Some Awesome People --- And many thanks to my $10 supporters on Patreon, you are awesome! Theodore Chu Sebastian Duong Nguyen Eric Epstein Join the gang and help support me produce free and high quality science content: https://www.patreon.com/domainofscience --- My Science Books ---- I also write science books for kids! You can see them all here: http://profastrocat.com --- Follow me around the internet --- http://dominicwalliman.com https://twitter.com/DominicWalliman https://www.instagram.com/dominicwalliman