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SpaceX Launch Tonight & Musk With COVID

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Musk Says He Has a Moderate Case of COVID-19                                                       Source:  Space X SpaceX First Operational Launch Scheduled for Tonight Space X CEO Elon Musk says he has COVID.  Ironically,  Musk's SpaceX is scheduled to launch four NASA astronauts into orbit tonight to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time since it launched the Space X Crew Dragon to the ISS in May.  Weather is a big question.  But this launch, when it happens, is historic.  It will be the first time in 60 years that NASA handed over the keys for a fully operational launch of NASA astronauts to a US private space company.  And because of Musk's likely COVID infection, the incredible entrepreneur behind SpaceX perhaps will join the astronauts remotely on line, rather than wher...