SpaceX Launch Leaves Musk ‘Emotionally Exhausted’
It’s a big win for Elon Musk—and NASA’s gamble of partnering with private industry.
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SpaceX launched an unmanned Crew Dragon craft from Florida to the International Space Station early Saturday, a milestone for Elon Musk's goal of enabling humans to live on other planets and a big win for NASA’s gamble of partnering with private industry.
Scores of space tourists gathered in Florida to watch the 2:49 a.m. launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, which went off without a hitch. Crew Dragon is en route to a rendezvous with the station on Sunday, while SpaceX landed the rocket's first stage on a drone ship in the ocean.
“I'm a little emotionally exhausted,” Musk said at a NASA news conference. “It was super stressful. But it worked, so far.”