NASA announces launch of manned American rocket from American soil

<p>For the first time since the final space shuttle mission in 2011, astronauts will launch into space aboard an American rocket and spacecraft from American soil, according to NASA.</p><p>The agency, along with SpaceX, is eyeing a mid-to-late May launch for the manned SpaceX Demo-2 flight test from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</p><p>Meanwhile, it looks like a lot of people want to be a NASA astronaut. More than 12,000 people applied to be part of NASA's next class of astronauts.</p>