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NASA counts down to historic SpaceX launch of astronauts

By Associated Press

May 26, 2020

National news

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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A, Monday at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is lowered on Launch Pad 39-A today at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A, today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Time Executive Producer Jonathan Woods sets up a remote camera as the SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule on top of the rocket, is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX logo is displayed on a building today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch on May 27. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts will blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-A today at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-A today at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-A today at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Dragon capsule on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-A today at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-A today at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A today at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 21, 2020 file photo, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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