SpaceX Crew-1 Pre-Launch Briefing

Inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA and industry leaders conduct a virtual prelaunch news conference Nov. 13, 2020, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. From left are Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy Space Center; Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson Space Center; Kirt Costello, chief scientist, International Space Station Program, Johnson; Norm Knight, deputy manager, Flight Operations Directorate, Johnson; Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron; and Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX. 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.