SpaceX Crew-1 Liftoff

A view of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building from the observation deck of the Operations Support Building II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 15, 2020. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience atop is on Launch Pad 39A for the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station. Crew-1 is the first regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The Crew Dragon will carry NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the space station for a six-month science mission.