Share on Flipboard The crewed SpaceX Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 30 May 2020. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft which is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station. Credit: ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock For the first time in nearly a decade, NASA launched astronauts into space from U.S. territory. And for the first time ever, it was on a spacecraft built by a private company, Elon Musk's SpaceX. The company's reusable Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday after the first attempt was aborted Wednesday. The Crew Dragon spacecraft carries two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, who are expected to reach the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.