Phil McAlister, NASA director of commercial spaceflight chats with Janet Karika, NASA Chief of Staff during the countdown of the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft from mission control at the Kennedy Space Center May 30, 2020 Cape Canaveral, in Florida. The spacecraft carried astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken into orbit on their way to the International Space Station.

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