https://wccftech.com/spacexs-fresh-dragon-upgrades-ensured-successful-launch-today-outlines-official/ > The Crew Dragon takes to the skies with NASA's vehicle assemble building in the foreground. Image: NASA TV > In the early morning hours of Florida, a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Crew Dragon capsule successfully departed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to take astronauts for the Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station. The mission is the third time that the Hawthorne, California-based launch service provider has launched crew to the ISS, and it comes less than a year after NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley resumed space flights from U.S. soil as part of their DM-2 demonstration mission.