SpaceX_Crew-2_Launch_(NHQ202104230037).jpg

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Description

English: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide onboard, Friday, April 23, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide launched at 5:49 a.m. EDTfrom Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission onboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Español: Lanzamiento del Falcon 9 durante la misión SpaceX Crew-2.

Date

23 April 2021, 05:49:08

Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/51133282136/in/photostream/

Author

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

Aubrey Gemignani
Description	American photographer and photo archivist
Authority file	: Q70751664

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Captions

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

SpaceX Crew-2

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A

Falcon 9 Block 5

captured with

Canon EOS 6D

exposure time

0.001 second

f-number

1.8

focal length

85 millimetre

ISO speed

100

media type

image/jpeg

instance of

photograph