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Thursday, April 30, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket to transport U.S. Astronauts -- May 27 (four weeks from now)

from SPACE dot-com (NASA website article)

The first flight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years finally has a launch date: May 27. 
The mission will launch astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in a final test flight for NASA. The mission, Demo-2, will mark NASA's first crew launch from American soil since the agency's space shuttle fleet retired in July 2011. 
Liftoff is set for 4:32 p.m. EDT (2032 GMT) from historic Launch Pad 39A — the same site used for NASA's Apollo and shuttle missions — at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"On May 27, will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!" NASA chief Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter in an announcement today (April 17). 

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