SpaceX Demo-2 Liftoff
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley make the journey from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to historic Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as they prepare to embark on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The astronauts are being transported to the launch pad in a Tesla Model X. 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. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. 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-MIV01_0001
Date Created
May 30, 2020
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KSC
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NASA/Michael Vrbanic
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VAB
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