SpaceX Demo-2 Preflight President Donald Trump participates in a SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 Launch Briefing with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, left, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, Second Lady Karen Pence, Vice President Mike Pence, First Lady Melania Trump, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, right at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building following the departure of NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley for Launch Complex 39A to board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for launch, Wednes
SpaceX Demo-2 Preflight President Donald Trump participates in a SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 Launch Briefing with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, left, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, Second Lady Karen Pence, Vice President Mike Pence, First Lady Melania Trump, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, right at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building following the departure of NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley for Launch Complex 39A to board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for launch, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Today’s launch of Behnken and Hurley was scrubbed due to weather and is now scheduled for 3:22 EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
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