The Crew Dragon Resilience on approach to the International Space Station, backed by the Earth.
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At exactly 7:27 p.m. ET on Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster burst to life at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, its engines lighting up the Florida coast. The picture-perfect launch of the gumdrop-shaped Crew Dragon spacecraft — nicknamed Resilience — marked a historic moment in American spaceflight.
Not since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 has NASA sent humans to orbit from American soil in an operational…
