Army Space and Missile Defense Command supports SpaceX launch with satellite communications

UNITED STATES

05.30.2020

Courtesy Photo

U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft, launches from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, May 30, at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch from American soil on an American rocket to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (NASA photo)

• Date Taken: 05.30.2020
• Date Posted: 06.03.2020 12:19
• Photo ID: 6229367
• VIRIN: 200530-A-AB123-001
• Resolution: 985x574
• Size: 45.25 KB
• Location: US