SpaceX launch kicks off regular commercial flights into orbit

With the Crew-1 mission on its way to the ISS, the U.S. regains the ability to send astronauts on routine missions to space after 9 years. Just before 7:30 p.m. U.S. eastern time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered through the nighttime sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying four astronauts to …