Crew Dragon has successfully separated. Next stop? The International @Space_Station. #LaunchAmerica
For the first time in 9 years, we have now launched American astronauts on American rockets from American soil. I'm so proud of the @NASA and @SpaceX team for making this moment possible. #LaunchAmerica
"This has been a long time coming, been 9 years since we've launched American astronauts, from American soil, on American rockets. Want to give a lot of thanks for Charlie Bolden, he was my predecessor who fought for this when there wasn't a lot of backing from Congress. Budgets are going up, things are looking strong. One of the things that the President did right out of the gate, was make a National Space Council, and the chair is the Vice President. All of these amazing individuals are also on this - people who deal with Space day in and day out - were here in attendance today. Bi-partisan members of congress were here today, supporting us. I'll say, I'm breathing a sigh of relief, but I will not celebrate until Bob and Doug are home safely. Tomorrow, we dock to the ISS - tonight I'm headed to Houston to be at JSC when they dock. The nosecone is now open, now we'll go into some burns - phasing burns, boosting burns, to get in alignment with the ISS as early as possible here. I know it's hard, but now we need to get Bob and Doug some rest. I know there won't be much rest for a good amount of time while they're up on orbit.""President Trump becomes the only president to watch a new rocket, with a new program, launch to space. It shows his accountability for what he's put into place with his administration.A year and a half ago, he put it in the SOTU speech, we will launch American astronauts from American soil - I had to work some overtime to get this done - and we're a little late, but we made it this far and we've done it safely. We've still got work to do.Feeling that rumble, I was praying. For Bob, Doug, their families, everyone. I've heard that rumble before, but it's entirely different when you have your own team on that rocket. We're all in challenging times, with the pandemic ongoing, new program, but we've got to keep going. If we can inspire someone to become the next Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, that's what we are trying to do."
.@elonmusk celebrating with SpaceX and NASA teams in launch control at Kennedy Space Center after the successful launch of SpaceX's first crewed mission.#SpaceX #Demo2 #LaunchAmerica
This is what it looks like when SpaceX launch control watched their first ever crewed launch. @elonmusk is in the top right. #SpaceX #LaunchAmerica #Demo2
