SpaceX pioneers return to Earth in August after a historic space trip

SpaceX pioneers return to Earth in August after a historic space trip

American space and aviation agency (NASA) director said that two American astronauts will return from the International Space Station next August, at the end of a historic trip, which was a test of the possibility of sending a company. SpaceX "manned flights to space.

Jim Brendstein said: The agency "targets" August 1 as the date for departure and arrival on Earth the next day. "

"The weather will set the actual date. Follow us," he tweeted.

Last May, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley became the first astronauts to reach the International Space Station on a commercial flight aboard the SpaceX space capsule, SpaceX. The capsule was launched on the Falcon 9 missile.

It was the first launch of space from US soil in about a decade, and the first time that a private company, not the US government, also sent astronauts into space.