Launch marks first full taxi flight for NASA by private company with Dragon capsule carrying 3 Americans, 1 Japanese astronaut; SpaceX chief Elon Musk missing with suspected COVID
Flight by Elon Musk's company was first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit, could clear the way for tourist flights from next year
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who blasted off toward space station 2 months ago, aiming for Sunday afternoon splashdown off Florida coast, a first for manned spaceflight in 45 years
Elon Musk's privately engineered manned space flight delivers astronauts to orbiting research center, completing complex hitching of capsule to station automatically
2011 mothballing of US shuttle program left Russia's Soyuz spacecraft solely responsible for transporting crews, giving Moscow cash as well as leverage over ISS decisions
Elon Musk's company becomes first private organization to take humans to orbit, ending nine-year launch drought for NASA since retirement of the space shuttle
Wednesday's planned flight will be the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit, first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade
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