Crew-1 Astronaut Arrival

A crew arrival media event for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission is held Nov. 8, 2020, at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Posing for a photograph after speaking to the media, from left are, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot; NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, spacecraft commander; NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, mission specialist; and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, mission specialist. Crew-1 is the first crew rotation mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.