NASA Communications’ Jasmine Hopkins interviews individuals from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on the Operations and Support Building II balcony at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch broadcast on April 23, 2021. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at 5:49 a.m. EDT. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Crew-2 delivered NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet to the International Space Station for a six-month science mission.
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