NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley (left) and Robert Behnken exit the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, on 30th May 2020, in preparation for transport to Launch Complex 39A ahead of embarking on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch to the space station from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX's final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. | |
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