Two Astronauts Arrive at KSC for Historic 1st SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission to ISS

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley speak to members of the media after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Florida. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.   Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

20 May 2020

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  A pair of veteran NASA astronauts - Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken – flew to the Florida Space Coast and arrived this afternoon May 20 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to start the final preparations for the history making 1^st launch of American astronauts in nine years atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket since the retirement of NASA’s space shuttles in 2011.

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