Creative Photography - Sunrise; SpaceX

A magnificent sunrise is captured over SpaceX’s processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 15, 2020. Under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA and SpaceX have returned human spaceflight capability to the U.S. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission, becoming the first time astronauts had launched from American soil since 2011. The mission, concluding on Aug. 2 with Behnken and Hurley’s safe return to Earth, was the final flight test for SpaceX under the program, paving the way for NASA to fully certify the company’s crew transportation for rotational missions to the orbiting laboratory.

A magnificent sunrise is captured over SpaceX’s processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 15, 2020. Under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA and SpaceX have returned human spaceflight capability to the U.S. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission, becoming the first time astronauts had launched from American soil since 2011. The mission, concluding on Aug. 2 with Behnken and Hurley’s safe return to Earth, was the final flight test for SpaceX under the program, paving the way for NASA to fully certify the company’s crew transportation for rotational missions to the orbiting laboratory.

Photographer NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Album SpaceX_Demo_2
Location KSC