Astronauts ring opening bell for Nasdaq from spot space
Marcia Dunn, Ap Aerospace Author
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CORRECTS TO NASDAQ, NOT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE – In this image from video made accessible by NASA, astronaut Chris Cassidy, appropriate, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq Inventory Trade accompanied by fellow astronauts Robert L. Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley within the Worldwide Set of living Space on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (NASA by plot of AP) much less
CORRECTS TO NASDAQ, NOT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE – In this image from video made accessible by NASA, astronaut Chris Cassidy, appropriate, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq Inventory Trade accompanied by fellow … extra
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CORRECTS TO NASDAQ, NOT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE – In this image from video made accessible by NASA, astronaut Chris Cassidy, appropriate, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq Inventory Trade accompanied by fellow astronauts Robert L. Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley within the Worldwide Set of living Space on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (NASA by plot of AP) much less
CORRECTS TO NASDAQ, NOT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE – In this image from video made accessible by NASA, astronaut Chris Cassidy, appropriate, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq Inventory Trade accompanied by fellow … extra
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts launched into orbit by SpaceX joined within the ringing of the opening bell for the Nasdaq on Tuesday to designate “a pivotal second” for the spot economy.
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken took part within the ceremony from the Worldwide Set of living Space, three days after their initiating by Elon Musk’s company.
SpaceX turned the first non-public company to ship astronauts into orbit, with its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon pill, and ended a 9-year initiating drought for NASA.
The two astronauts floated alongside spot space commander Chris Cassidy as he rang a ship’s bell to initiating trading on the Nasdaq Inventory Trade. Their image, alongside with are living-streamed images of diversified NASA crew, lit up the Nasdaq marquee in Fresh York’s Cases Square.
“It’s basically a pivotal second within the pronounce of the spot economy and a current technology of personal human spaceflight,” said Nasdaq President Adena Friedman.
She requested the astronauts about making spaceflight extra accessible to widespread of us.
“It be basically transformational whereas you reach into spot and stumble on encourage at our planet, and then survey how fragile it’s and how thin the atmosphere is. It basically does commerce you for the upper,” Hurley said. “I’ve the extra of us that we make clear to this, the upper off we are going to be as a species.”
NASA desires to be appropriate one customer of many, illustrious Jim Morhard, the spot company’s deputy administrator, who took part within the digital bell ringing. SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Boeing and diversified firms taking a peep to ship of us into spot are riding down costs whereas increasing innovation, he said.
“We’re basically at the fracture of day of a current spot age,” Morhard said.
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