Trump raves after rocket launch: “return to the stars”

US President Donald Trump has shown himself exuberant after the launch of a manned “Crew Dragon” to the International Space Station. The event marked the “bold and triumphant return to the stars for the US,” Trump said after seeing two US astronauts take off from Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida. “We saw a heroic act.”

Now, “a new era of American ambition has begun,” Trump said. Even the United States cannot hold back gravity. “We have created something that will draw the envy of the world, and we will soon land on Mars, and we will soon have the best weapons you could ever imagine in history.” With the successful start, the United States would have “recaptured its prestigious place as the leader of the world”. “We will ensure continued US dominance in space.”

With the “Crew Dragon”, US astronauts – space travelers Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley – are flying from the United States to the ISS for the first time in almost nine years. In addition, SpaceX is the first private provider to transport space travelers on behalf of the US space agency NASA. The astronauts were expected on the ISS on Sunday.

The US President thanked them and reiterated his government’s plans to bring astronauts to the moon again by 2024. However, many space experts doubt whether this will be possible in time.

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