Elon Musk’s SpaceX opened up an era of commercial activity in space on Sunday as it became the first company to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
A capsule carrying two Nasa astronauts docked at the ISS on Sunday morning, a day after the first manned launch from US soil in almost a decade.
After bad weather interrupted the timetable, US president Donald Trump travelled to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center for a second time in four days to witness the SpaceX launch on Saturday, marking only the third time a president has been on hand for a trip into space. The California company’s Crew Dragon capsule, carrying the two Nasa crewmen, was sent on its first test trip to space from the same launch pad as the first manned moonshot in 1969.