SpaceX Demo-2 Astronaut Suit-Up
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley (left) and Robert Behnken prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after donning their spacesuits ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 launch on May 30, 2020. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT from historic Launch Complex 39A. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch to the International Space Station from U.S. 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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KSC-20200530-PH-KLS01_0185
Date Created
May 30, 2020
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KSC
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NASA/Kim Shiflett
Location
Crew Quarters, OSB II
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