NASA and SpaceX are ‘GO’ to Proceed for Launch!

NASA and SpaceX are ‘GO’ to Pro­ceed for Launch!



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NASA’s mis­sion with SpaceX to launch Amer­i­can astro­nauts to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion is cleared to pro­ceed, offi­cials said, fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful Flight Readi­ness Review that con­clud­ed Fri­day, May 22, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen­ter in Florida.

Par­tic­i­pants in a news brief­ing about the mis­sion include:
· NASA Admin­is­tra­tor Jim Bridenstine
· NASA Asso­ciate Admin­is­tra­tor Steve Jurczyk
· Kathy Lued­ers, man­ag­er, NASA Com­mer­cial Crew Program
· Kirk Shire­man, man­ag­er, Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion Program
· Ben­ji Reed, direc­tor of crew mis­sion man­age­ment, SpaceX
· Norm Knight, deputy direc­tor, NASA John­son Space Cen­ter Flight Operations

NASA and SpaceX are tar­get­ing 4:33 p.m. EDT Wednes­day, May 27, for the launch of the Demo‑2 flight, which will be the first time a com­mer­cial­ly built and oper­at­ed Amer­i­can rock­et and space­craft will car­ry humans to the space station.

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