NASA Declares SpaceX Rocket Safe For Upcoming Astronaut Launch
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rolling out to the launch pad on Friday week. The rocket and its spacecraft are currently vertical at the Launch Complex 39A in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: SpaceX
Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) have finished the final steps of reviewing the company's rocket and spacecraft for an upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is officially dubbed as SpaceX Crew-2 by NASA, and it will fly astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) to the orbiting space laboratory.