SpaceX Lifts NASA Astronauts to Orbit, Launching New Era of Spaceflight

Just after noon, the astronauts were seen off by their families ahead of their drive to the launchpad. Mr. Behnken asked his son, Theodore, “Are you going to listen to Mommy and make her life easy?” referring to Megan McArthur, his wife and a fellow astronaut. Theodore, 6, replied, “Let’s light this candle!” (Mr. Hurley, too, is married to a fellow astronaut, Karen Nyberg.)

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