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Despite Musk Twitter storm, coronavirus forces extra precautions to ensure 'critical mission' blasts off. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docks at the International Space Station  While SpaceX founder Elon Musk is facing blistering criticism for calling stay-at-home orders "fascist", officials representing his space company and NASA are trying to allay coronavirus fears. They said Friday that in the run-up to a historic space launch slated for May 27, they are employing additional safety measures to keep their two astronauts, mission control crews and the spacecraft virus free. This revelation comes despite Musk's repeated statements and tweets railing against county authorities in California in the United States after authorities there extended stay-at-home orders to fight the COVID-19 pandemic through May 31. Starting late Tuesday night, Musk, who is also the CEO of the California-based Tesla, initiated his ong

Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years. The rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on 27 May, taking two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Both the rocket and spacecraft were developed by private company SpaceX. Nasa has been using Russian rockets for crewed flights since its space shuttle was retired in 2011. If successful, SpaceX – headed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - will become the first private firm to send Nasa astronauts into space. The Falcon Nine rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will take off from the space centre’s historic Pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and shuttle missions. It will take astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley approximately 24 hours to reach the ISS. One American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are currently aboard the ISS.