SpaceX Crew-1 Astronaut Training

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi participates in crew equipment interface testing for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Sept. 24, 2020. Also participating, but not pictured, were Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Shannon Walker, all NASA astronauts. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew-1 is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which has returned human spaceflight capabilities to the U.S.