[jeffc]

SpaceX supplied the spacecraft, launched it from Florida and flew it from the company's suburban Los Angeles headquarters.

I'm having trouble with this sentence. Does "flew it from" need to be "flew it to"?

[Blennos]

I believe they meant that the SpaceX mission control was in los Angeles.

[jimtorr]

Does "flew it from" need to be "flew it to"?

No. it simply means that the ground control station was in suburban LA. If the "crew" of the capsule were the first batch of space tourists, they were certainly not competent to control the capsule themselves.

[Roccus]

I’m thinking the control center is in LA

[DoubleNickle]

Resilience returned from orbit last May and was taken to SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, CA to install the cupola and then was flown back to FL for this launch. Bad wording by the writer.

[Roccus]

For me, "the company's suburban Los Angeles headquarters" conjures up visions of a hillside tract house with satellite dishes on the roof and a garage full of panels with flashing lights and monitors.

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[usafa92]

Think of the Space X capsule like a giant drone that’s being piloted from LA. Technology is great and everything, but I don’t care for this cavalier attitude towards space flight. The Mercury program was originally supposed to be a largely autopiloted endeavor, and the astronauts fought to be able to fly. Almost every mission subsequently had an issue that required the pilots to manually fly part of the mission.