SpaceX Crew-1 Pre-Launch Briefing

Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX, answers questions during a virtual prelaunch news conference Nov. 13, 2020, inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 launch. Crew-1 is the first regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission.

Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX, answers questions during a virtual prelaunch news conference Nov. 13, 2020, inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 launch. Crew-1 is the first regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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