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SpaceX Demo-2 Prep Heats Up

2020-02-26

While the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that will launch its first crew from American soil is already at the launch site, the NASA astronauts who will head to the International Space Station aboard it are deep in training for Demo-2. This flight test will be SpaceX’s first with crew in support of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from historic Launch Complex 39A from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft now will undergo final testing and prelaunch processing in a SpaceX facility on nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The big day is on the way … Meanwhile, Behnken and Hurley continue prepping for their historic test flight.

 


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Watch the SpaceX Crew Dragon for Demo-2 as it underwent electromagnetic interference testing in the EMI chamber at the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne prior to its arrival at the launch site in Florida.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for Demo-2 arrived at the launch site on Feb. 13, 2020. Photo credit: SpaceX