NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Arrive at the Launch Site
NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi are seen on the fixed service structure of Launch Complex 39A before boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket before the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA/Joel Kowsky
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have arrived at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, where the Crew Dragon spacecraft, Resilience, is ready for them to climb in for launch. Liftoff is slated for 7:27 p.m. EST.
In the next few minutes, they’ll take the elevator up the pad’s fixed service structure and walk down the air-conditioned crew access arm to the White Room, their final stop before climbing aboard.
