NASA prepares for next launch to International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is on the launch pad Saturday at Launch Complex 39A during a brief static fire test ahead of NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission. Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA
From left to right, Deputy Director of Flight Operations at Johnson Space Center Norm Knight, deputy chief of the Astronaut Office Andrew Feustel and director of the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center Stephen Koerner conduct a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is rolled to Launch Complex 39A on Friday. Photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the ISS as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. Photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA
From left to right, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough and Japan AEA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide pose for photographs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
McArthur is preparing for launch on the second operational mission from the Space Center with the crew. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
"We're excited to fly on these flight-proven vehicles," mission commander Kimbrough said during a live broadcast at the space center after the astronauts arrived. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
Astronauts McArthur and Kimbrough (lower) and Megan McArthur deplane following arrival at Kennedy Space Center. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
