Hornet fished the Apollo 11 astronauts out of the Pacific Ocean after their mission-ending splashdown on July 24, 1969, and ferried the trio back to shore.) Nixon had nothing to do with Apollo 11, but he wrapped himself in all the celebrations - went out to the carrier and all of that - and never once mentioned Kennedy," said Logsdon, who has written books about the space policies of both Nixon and Kennedy. "One of the things the ad reminded me of was Richard Nixon at the time of Apollo 11. The "Make Space Great Again" video did not reference the 10-year history of commercial crew, which began during the presidency of Barack Obama.
SpaceX can start conducting those contracted missions if all continues to go well with Demo-2. In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing won multibillion-dollar commercial crew contracts to finish work on their astronaut taxis (Boeing's is a capsule called CST-100 Starliner) and fly six operational missions to the ISS. SpaceX developed Crew Dragon with funding help from NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which was established in 2010 to groom private spacecraft to fill the space shuttle's shoes. The two spaceflyers will live on the orbiting lab for one to four months NASA has not yet announced how long their mission will last. The ad also celebrated the successful May 30 launch of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission, the first orbital human spaceflight to depart from the United States since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in July 2011.ĭemo-2 sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The short-lived video highlighted the Trump administration's push for a crewed moon landing by 2024, which NASA is working to achieve via its Artemis program.
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