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    Coronavirus Fears Have NASA Urging Space Fans To Stay Away From Historic Launch

    The space agency is urging people not to travel to go see astronauts embark on their historic launch from Florida, the first time they will do so in nearly a decade.
    by Nell Greenfieldboyce May 01, 2020 2 minutes
    An arist's depiction of SpaceX's Crew Dragon, which is set to take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station May 27.

    Because of the coronavirus, NASA's top official is asking space fans to not travel to Florida later this month to watch astronauts blast off from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011.

    "When we look back to the space shuttle launches, we had hundreds of thousands of people that said in a pre-flight briefing. But, he noted, now is unfortunately not a good time for people to gather in large crowds.

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