NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren participates in a NASA Social Facebook Live briefing inside the Press Site auditorium on May 26, 2020, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 launch, slated for Wednesday, May 27. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from soil to the space station since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Pa
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren participates in a NASA Social Facebook Live briefing inside the Press Site auditorium on May 26, 2020, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 launch, slated for Wednesday, May 27. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from soil to the space station since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 EDT.
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