From left, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur pose inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 23, 2021. NASA SpaceX’s Crew-2 astronauts will have breakfast before suiting up for the mission. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett