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♪ ♪ >> 3, 2, 1, 0. ignition, liftoff. jon: that's the launch make history for spacex this morning at the kennedy space center in florida. the so-called crew dragon capsule could soon bring astronauts to space as long as this test flight to the international space station goes according to plan. phil keating is live in cape canaveral, florida, with more on that. phil. >> reporter: visually, the launch looked certainly spectacular s and we've heard no reports from nasa or spacex about any issues. but this mission's far from over. the capsule still has to make it to the space station and then...

Marking a significant step towards bringing human space flight back to the u.s. phil keating is live on cape canaveral with all the details. hey, phil. >> reporter: hi, arthel. so far so good for this historic mission. this is the first commercial crew space capsule now successfully headed towards the international space station. a picture perfect launch in the darkness at 2:49 a.m. this morning, just spectacular visually. and you could hear the excited cheers from the spacex workers in california watching the feed. the capsule is loaded with data receptors, and this launch for spacex, 17 long...

♪ ♪ >> 3, 2, 1, 0. ignition, liftoff. jon: that's the launch make history for spacex this morning at the kennedy space center in florida. the so-called crew dragon capsule could soon bring astronauts to space as long as this test flight to the international space station goes according to plan. phil keating is live in cape canaveral, florida, with more on that. phil. >> reporter: visually, the launch looked certainly spectacular s and we've heard no reports from nasa or spacex about any issues. but this mission's far from over. the capsule still has to make it to the space station and then...

But people today have no idea or was rather than sort of getting all the details and then having the leaders sign something at don't realize that that was the the end, they would jump-start third attempt we had to get the process, give it some political momentum by having the leadership meet and then get an airborne. our crew, wall wall sherra, don agreement which is sort of the reverse path that's often used. easily and myself, we were but i think it's certainly a originally on what would have been the second flight, the legitimate path. what that means is we have second mission of apollo and...

Capsule and on the launch pad by a flash electrical fire. there was no emergency hatch. they couldn't get out, and in the 100% oxygen environment in the capsule, they likely died in seconds. their deaths were a national tragedy and a huge blow to the space program. gus grisham, like his friend neil armstrong was a veteran. he'd flown combat missions overseas. both were purdue educated engineers. he likely would have been the first man on the moon had he lived. betty grisham, famously said that as an astronaut's wife she had already died 100,000 deaths by the time she lost her husband gus, but ...