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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday celebrated the secure return of NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard the corporate’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in its first-ever astronaut mission. The Demo-2 mission was additionally the primary to launch and land in U.S. territory since 2011, and the primary splashdown since 1975. Simply 5 hours after coming down within the Atlantic Ocean after a two-month keep on the Worldwide House Station, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, along with NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Musk, appeared at a particular occasion at Ellington Area in Houston, Texas. Clearly relieved to see the secure return of the 2 astronauts in what was a hitch-free mission, a pumped Musk quipped, “I’m not very spiritual however I prayed for this one.” The billionaire entrepreneur who based SpaceX 18 years in the past with the lofty aim of making a reusable area transportation system, stated the profitable Demo-2 mission heralds “a brand new age of area exploratio...