Watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑2 Launch to the International Space Station (Official NASA Broadcast)

Watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑2 Launch to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion (Offi­cial NASA Broadcast)



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Watch con­tin­u­ous cov­er­age of NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑2 mission: 

Watch as four astro­nauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the Inter­na­tion­al Space Station.
 
At 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC), the SpaceX Crew Drag­on Endeav­our space­craft and Fal­con 9 rock­et will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen­ter in Flori­da. Shane Kim­brough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pes­quet of the Euro­pean Space Agency, and Aki­hiko Hoshide of the Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency will join the sta­tion’s crew, for a mis­sion of approx­i­mate­ly six months.
 
This will be the first launch through our Com­mer­cial Crew Pro­gram to fly two inter­na­tion­al part­ner astro­nauts, and the first reuse of a Crew Drag­on space­craft and Fal­con 9 rock­et for a crew mission.
 
Once aboard the sta­tion, the Crew‑2 astro­nauts will spend a lot of time on sci­ence — in areas such as med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, human health, and mate­ri­als to ben­e­fit life on Earth. The space sta­tion is a unique sci­en­tif­ic plat­form, enabling researchers from all over the world to put their tal­ents to work on inno­v­a­tive exper­i­ments. It has instru­ments that mon­i­tor our home plan­et’s glob­al cli­mate, envi­ron­men­tal changes, and nat­ur­al hazards.

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