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NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Operational with Liftoff of Crew-1

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Operational with Liftoff of Crew-1

The skies over Florida’s Space Coast lit up as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center sending four astronauts to the International Space Station. After they arrive, the orbiting laboratory will be staffed for the first time by seven astronauts and cosmonauts increasing the amount of time available for research and additional opportunities for discoveries.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Launches New Spaceflight Era

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Launches New Spaceflight Era

A new era of human spaceflight launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on May 30, 2020 as American astronauts once again lifted off on an American rocket from American soil headed for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station the next day.