Elon Musk’s company is flying increasingly on reused boosters and hitting a rapid launch cadence.
, and Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, who are making their first trips to space. Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency, joined them. Watkins would become the first Black woman to live for an extended time in space.A few minutes before liftoff, Lindgren told mission control, “Let Falcon roar and freedom ring.” Once in orbit, he said that the crew was “feeling great and looking forward to the view.
So far, the company has flown two boosters as many as 12 times. While officials at NASA and the Pentagon had once been skeptical about the reliability and performance of boosters that had endured the harshness of space flight, that mind-set has changed dramatically in recent years.
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