KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Ahead of Thursday’s Crew-2 mission liftoff with four astronauts from Florida, there are many critical moments leading up to the final seconds of the countdown.
NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, along with JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet are slated to launch from Kennedy Space Center Thursday at 6:11 a.m.
in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour. After launching on a Falcon 9 rocket, the spacecraft will catch up to the International Space Station less than 24 hours later where the astronauts will dock, becoming the third crew to fly to the orbiting laboratory via SpaceX’s spacecraft.