# Launch America! SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon Lifts Off on Demo-2 Mission to Space Station xhrJzj0Y7C8

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon lifts off at 3:22 p.m. EDT on May 30, 2020, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. This marks the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_America!_SpaceX_Falcon_9_with_Crew_Dragon_Lifts_Off_on_Demo-2_Mission_to_Space_Station_xhrJzj0Y7C8.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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