Falcon 9 lifts off from historic Launch Complex 39A and sends Crew Dragon to orbit on its first flight with @NASA astronauts to the @space_station
Congrats @SpaceX @NASA @JimBridenstine! The sheer joy expressed by @elonmusk in this picture is only matched by the pride of the men and women of @SpaceForceDoD @45thSpaceWing for being your partners in today’s historic launch.
NASA HQ PHOTO SpaceX Demo-2 Launch (NHQ202005300113) Hans Koenigsmann, vice president for build and flight reliability at SpaceX hugs Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Have press kits for this mission been issued by either SpaceX or NASA?
When nerves and apprehension turn into exhilarating pride. #crewdragon #endeavour #falcon9
Update: The arrival time for 'Of Course I Still Love You' and Falcon 9 has moved up to ~2pm ET tomorrow.This time is still tentative (Long way to go!) and could move again, either way, by a few hours.
