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Blastoff! Historic SpaceX Demo-2 mission launches to space station

May 8, 2019 -"SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrives at International Space Station
"Meet SpaceX’s First Moon Voyage Customer, Yusaku Maezawa""

•May 30, 2020

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A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-demo2-na...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awIjdoSqKw

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SpaceX Crew Dragon 'Endeavour' docks with space station
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•May 31, 2020

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NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission docked with the International Space Station on May 31, 2020. Crew Dragon Endeavour's approach and soft capture is seen here. Take an on-orbit tour of Crew Dragon: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dra...

Credit: NASA/SpaceX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1V4DK6fqI

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Commercial Crew Astronauts Join Expedition 63


The Expedition 63 crew has expanded to five members with the arrival of the SpaceX Crew Dragon. (From left) Anatoly
Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner, Chris Cassidy, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken .. https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/robert-l-behnken/ .. and Douglas Hurley .. https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/douglas-g-hurley/ .. aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour have arrived at the International Space Station .. http://www.nasa.gov/station .. to join Expedition 63 Commander and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy .. https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/christopher-j-cassidy .. and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin .. http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=177 .. and Ivan Vagner .. http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=164 .. of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

The crew members first opened the hatch between the space station and Dragon Endeavour at 1:02 p.m. EDT, allowing Hurley and Behnken to enter their new home in space as members of Expedition 63. The five crew members will hold a welcome ceremony next, after which the continuous coverage of the mission that began prior to launch will conclude.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will hold a news conference at 3:15 p.m. EDT from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the successful docking of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Johnson Center Director Mark Geyer, International Space Station Program Deputy Manager Kenneth Todd, NASA Commercial Crew Program Deputy Manager Steve Stich, and NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren also will participate in the live media briefing broadcast on NASA Television and the agency’s website .. http://www.nasa.gov/live .

It is the second arrival and autonomous docking to the International Space Station for a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first time .. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon .. any commercially built spacecraft has delivered astronauts to the orbiting laboratory.

Known as NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2, the mission is an end-to-end test flight to validate the SpaceX crew transportation system, including launch, in-orbit, docking and landing operations and pave the way for its certification for regular crew flights to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program .. https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html .

For operational missions, Crew Dragon will be able to launch as many as four crew members and carry more than 220 pounds of cargo, enabling the expansion of the inhabitants of the space station, increasing the time dedicated to research .. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/nasa-commercial-crew-program-extra-hands-to-science-on-space-station-iss .. in the unique microgravity environment, and returning more science back to Earth.

Follow along with mission activities and get more information at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/ .. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/ . Learn more about commercial crew .. https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew .. and space station activities by following @Commercial_Crew, @space_station .. https://twitter.com/Space_Station , and @ISS_Research .. https://twitter.com/ISS_Research .. on Twitter as well as the Commercial Crew Facebook .. https://www.facebook.com/NASACommercialCrew , ISS Facebook .. https://www.facebook.com/ISS .. and ISS Instagram accounts .. https://www.instagram.com/ISS .

Author Norah Moran Posted on May 31, 2020

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/05/31/commercial-crew-astronauts-join-expedition-63/

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