The Private Space Race

Spectators watch from a bridge in Titusville, Fla., as SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 30, 2020. Charlie Riedel/AP photo

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This week, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the United States in 10 years.