It was the first time a privately built and owned spacecraft carried astronauts to the orbiting lab in its nearly 20 years.
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The nuclear reactor vessel from the San Onofre nuclear plant, which will be the largest and heaviest object ever moved on a Nevada road, is heading for Las Vegas by rail.
The inaugural launch had appeared to be going well until moments after the rocket was dropped from beneath the left wing of the jumbo jet dubbed Cosmic Girl.
NASA test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken flew to Florida from Houston aboard one of the space agency’s jets.
Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, have already put similar systems in place.
