NASA astronauts will blast off from American soil for the first time in almost nine years when the SpaceX Crew Dragon launches atop a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2014, NASA allocated $8.5 billion to SpaceX and Boeing to develop crew capsules.NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will lift off at 16:32 Eastern Time (20:32GMT) on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Between Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and the space sh