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Add to Lightbox DownloadIn this photo released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASAâÂÂs SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAâÂÂs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAâÂÂs 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 agencyâÂÂs Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXâÂÂs 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/Bill Ingalls) Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM
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