Published 14:08 IST, May 28th 2020

Ivanka Trump takes kids to SpaceX launch against NASA's advice to watch from home

Ivanka Trump went to the scheduled launch of SpaceX’s Dragon Crew mission along with her kids amid pandemic, against NASA’s advise to watch from home.

Reported by: Kunal Gaurav
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US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka went to scheduled launch of X’s Dragon Crew mission along with her kids amid pandemic, against NASA’s vise to watch from home. If t for b wear, it would have been first manned launch from US soil since 2011 and NASA h urged everyone to watch it from inside ir homes.

Ivanka, also an viser to US President, chose to igre NASA’s vice and went to Kennedy Center in Florida to witness historic X launch. In photograph shared by a Twitter user, Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, can be seen t even wearing a face mask, unlike ors.

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Netizens slam Ivanka and Jared

pictures of Ivanka, along with her husband and kids, immediately went viral and netizens asked wher family is immune to contagious disease that has claimed 350,000 lives worldwide. Check out some of Twitter reactions:

However, unfavourable wear conditions forced ncies to abort plan just 17 minutes before scheduled launch. Taking to Twitter, Ivanka expressed disappointed launch h to be postponed due to wear, ding “safety first”.

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backup launch opportunities are available on May 30 at 12.52am IST, and May 31 at 12.30am IST. It is final major test for X’s human flight system prior to being certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from International Station.

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