“It’s kind of a fun thing that we can share. I can see him and say, ‘Hey, can you hand over the keys. I’m ready now to go,’ “ she said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
While their 7-year-old son, Theo, is becoming a pro at parent launches, McArthur said “he’s not super excited” about her being gone for six months. That’s how long she and her three crewmates will spend at the space station.
This will be SpaceX’s third crew flight for NASA from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in under a year. The commercial flights ended the U.S.’s reliance on Russian rockets launched from Kazakhstan to get astronauts to and from the space station after the shuttles retired.
SpaceX’s Benji Reed noted Tuesday the private company already has put six people in space — as many as NASA’s Project Mercury did back in the early 1960s when it launched the first Americans. The upcoming flight will boost that number to 10.
Some highlights of the SpaceX flight:
USE, RECYCLE, REPEAT
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