NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Crew Walkout

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, right, wave at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, center, as he and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-5 mission launch, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikini launched at 12:00 p.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, right, wave at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, center, as he and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-5 mission launch, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikini launched at 12:00 p.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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