In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-16 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. From left are: Tori McLendon of NASA Communications, Joel Montalbano, deputy International Space Station program manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Build and Flight Reliability for SpaceX, Kirt Costello, International Space Station program chief scientist at Johnson, and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer for the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company’s 16th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett