A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 7:27 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 15, 2020, carrying the company’s Crew Dragon Resilience capsule. Onboard the capsule are NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 NASA astronauts, Michael Hopkins, spacecraft commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Shannon Walker, mission specialist; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, mission specialist. 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 Crew Dragon will dock with the space station and the crew will remain on the orbiting laboratory for a six-month science mission.
Photographer NASA/Tony Gray and Kevin OConnell
Album SpaceX_Crew_1
Location LC 39A
Date November 15, 2020
NASAKSCKennedy Space CenterJSCJohnson Space CenterJAXAJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySpaceXCommercial Crew ProgramCCPCrew-1International Space StationISSAstronautsNASA astronaut Michael HopkinsNASA astronaut Victor GloverNASA astronaut Shannon WalkerJAXA astronaut Soichi NoguchiLaunch Complex 39ALC-39ASpaceX Falcon 9 RocketSpaceX Crew Dragon SpacecraftResilience