SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk.
Four astronauts arrived at their launch pad early Friday morning for a SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, the company’s third bon voyage for a NASA crew in under a year.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company strapped two employees into a fuelled rocketship for practice, but pulled them out shortly before sending the capsule to the edge of space on Wednesday with only a test dummy.