Elon Musk says if historic SpaceX launch 'goes wrong, it's my fault'
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Ahead of the historic launch of NASA astronauts on Wednesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said if it goes wrong, he's putting the blame squarely on himself.
"I'm the chief engineer of this thing so I'd just like to say that if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team," Musk told CBS This Morning. "If it goes wrong, it's my fault."
On Wednesday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be launched to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is the first time that astronauts have launched from American soil since 2011.
"This is the culmination of a dream. This is a dream come true," Musk added. "In fact, it feels surreal. If you'd asked me when starting SpaceX if this would happen, I'd be like '1 percent chance, 0.1 percent chance.'"
It will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit.
Since 2011, the U. S. has relied on Russian Soyuz rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to get astronauts into space. Russia charges the U.S. about $75 million to send an astronaut into space.
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