Ready, Set, Launch! Astronauts will launch from Kennedy Space Center in May aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — At noon on Friday, April 17, The National Aeronautics and Space Administrations announced that astronauts will be launched to space from U.S. soil, again.
NASA is teaming up with SpaceX to launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on May 27, 2020 at 4:32 p.m. ET.
Aboard the first test flight of Crew Dragon 2 will be astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. They will launch to the International Space Station.
This mission marks the return of humans to space from American soil and the very first launch of American astronauts from American soil, on an American rocket and spacecraft. The last time humans launched from American soil was on July 8th, 2011, on the final Space Shuttle Mission.
This is exciting news, especially for our Space Coast. The launch is scheduled to happen from Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A.
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