Elon Musk, a tech mogul with indirect ties to the crypto industry, sent two humans into orbit on May 30 in the first private, manned space craft launch in history.
"The launch will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit," Fox News said in a May 27 brief. "It will also be the first time that astronauts launch from U.S. soil since the final space shuttle mission in 2011."