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SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans toward orbit from Florida on Saturday, in a mission that marks the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT or 1922 GMT, launching Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, on a 19-hour ride aboard the company’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station. Crew Dragon separated from its second stage booster at 3:35 and minutes later entered orbit. The craft launched from the same pad used by NASA’s final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley, in 2011. Since then, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft//Reuters