LIVE: Nasa SpaceX set for historic launch

Nasa is set to send two astronauts to the International Space Station this afternoon, in a historic mission that marks the first crewed launch from US soil in almost a decade. In a spaceship built by Elon Musk’s California-based company SpaceX, astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre at UK time. The “Crew Dragon“ capsule carrying the two men will be launched into orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, arriving at the space station after 19 hours.