President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida on Wednesday to watch as SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit.
May 23 (UPI) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida on Wednesday to watch as SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit.
If the launch goes according to plan, it will be the first spaceflight launched from U. S. soil with American astronauts on board since 2011.
On Friday NASA and Space X completed a flight readiness review to launch NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island in Florida.
Wednesday’s trip to Florida will be Trump’s first not directly related to the coronavirus pandemic in two months.
