Last night, in a monumental step for US space exploration, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Crew Dragon spaceship into orbit, separating from the Falcon 9 rocket after blasting off from the Kennedy Space Station for the first time in nine years. The successful lift-off, which had Elon Musk “overcome with emotion”, will carry veteran NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station, where they are expected to dock at 2.29pm today. Eagled-eyed space enthusiasts will be following the crew’s progress on SpaceX’s YouTube live stream – with more than 120,000 people already locked in – but they are unlikely to spot anything quite as bizarre as what astronaut Scott Kelly snapped.