NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley prepare to depart Ellington Field in Houston on a NASA aircraft, bound for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behnken and Hurley are preparing to become the first Americans to launch from American soil to the International Space Station since the space shuttle was retired. Launch aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and a Falcon 9 rocket is set for 4:33 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 27 from Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39A. The Demo-2 mission will serve as an end-to-end test flight to validate the SpaceX crew transportation system, paving the way for its certification for regular crew flights to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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May 20, 2020
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