The astronauts who are set to launch into orbit later this week in SpaceX's second crewed mission have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center and are in their last days of preparation ahead of Saturday's big launch.
"As you can imagine, we are very excited to be here in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center for the final days before our launch to the International Space Station," Michael Hopkins, the commander of the mission, said at a news conference Monday.
"We’ve been here less than 24 hours, and in that time we have seen our rocket, we have seen our space vehicle Resilience, and we’ve seen our space suits," he added. "For an astronaut, that’s considered a pretty good day."
Last month, the crew announced that they were calling their spacecraft "Resilience" after a difficult year for a world that has been marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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