File:SpaceX Crew-2 Launch (NHQ202104230056).jpg

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Michael Hess, operations integration manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, speaks with Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center, right, as they monitor the countdown of Crew-2.

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English: Michael Hess, operations integration manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, speaks with Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center, right, as they monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide onboard, Friday, April 23, 2021, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide launched at 5:49 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Español: Michael Hess y Norm Knight mantienen una charla durante la cuenta regresiva de la misión SpaceX Crew-2.

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23 April 2021, 02:19:26

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NASA/Joel Kowsky

Joel Kowsky
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Image title	Michael Hess, operations integration manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, speaks with Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center, right, as they monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide onboard, Friday, April 23, 2021, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide launched at 5:49 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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