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Add to Lightbox DownloadIn this photo released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, and Benji Reed, director of crew mission management at SpaceX are seen during 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 NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAâs 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 agencyâs Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXâs 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 by Joel Kowsky / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM
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