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Headline: SpaceX Demo-2 Dress Rehearsal

Caption: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen at Launch Complex 39A through the windows of firing room four during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission, Saturday, May 23, 2020, in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Keywords: Cape Canaveral,Commercial Crew Program,Crew Dragon,Demo-2,Demo-2 Preflight,Falcon 9,Firing Room Four,Florida,Kennedy Space Center,Launch America,Launch Control Center (LCC),SpaceX

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