With 2021 fast approaching, we’re recapping some of this year’s defining events as seen
With 2021 fast approaching, we’re recapping some of this year’s defining events as seen from space. Stay tuned over the next few days as we continue our 2020 Year in Review.In late May 2020, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and successfully shuttled two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. It was the first time in nine years that NASA astronauts launched from American soil on an American rocket and the first time in history those astronauts flew on a commercially built and operated spacecraft. This Overview shows the Dragon heading into space above Demre, Turkey.Source imagery: NASA Earth -- source link