Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched two NASA astronauts into space Saturday afternoon at 3:22pm (19:22 GMT), making the company the first commercial entity ever to achieve such a feat.
“This has been along time coming,” said NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine “It’s been nine years since we’ve launched American astronauts, on American rockets, from American soil. And now it’s done. We have done it. It’s been way too long.”
The Saturday launch was a few days late. On Wednesday, weather, specifically the threat of lightning, forced the SpaceX and NASA teams to scrub the original launch date.
