NASA Hosts Administrator Briefing for the agency’s SpaceX Demo

From left, NASA Communications’ Bettina Inclan, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Kjell Lindgren, and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard participate in a press briefing inside Kennedy’s Press Site auditorium on May 26, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 launch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from historic Launch Complex 39A on Wednesday, May 27, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil to the space station since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT.

From left, NASA Communications’ Bettina Inclan, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Kjell Lindgren, and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard participate in a press briefing inside Kennedy’s Press Site auditorium on May 26, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 launch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from historic Launch Complex 39A on Wednesday, May 27, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil to the space station since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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