SpaceX Crew-2 Astronaut Walk-Out

NASA SpaceX’s Crew-2 astronauts say goodbye to their families outside of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 23, 2021. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will then board two Tesla vehicles for the trip to Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission.

Date

2021-04-23

Photographer / author

NASA/Brandon Garner

Collection

KSC

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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