Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA, speaks during a NASA Social Facebook Live event April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
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