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hi I'm NASA Kennedy's Torey McClendon

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and I'm outside PUC taking you inside

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KSC NASA astronauts Robert bankin and

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Douglas Hurley have arrived at the

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International Space Station following a

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picture-perfect launch from NASA's

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Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the

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agency's SpaceX demo2 mission the SpaceX

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Falcon 9 rocket carrying the crew dragon

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lifted off from historic launch complex

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39a at 3:22 p.m. Eastern on Saturday May

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30th this marked the first time

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astronauts have launched from US soil

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since the end of the Showa program in

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2011 assuring in a new era of space

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exploration about 12 minutes after

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launch crew Dragon separated from the

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Rockets second stage beginning its

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nineteen hour journey to the space

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station upon their arrival on May 31st

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bankin and Hurley were greeted by the

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expedition 63 crewmembers already on

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board while at the space station

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vengan and Hurley will assist the crew

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conducting research and supporting

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station operations and maintenance the

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exact duration of this mission is still

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being determined NASA's Mars

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perseverance rover is getting a boost

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the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5

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booster that would launch NASA's newest

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robotic Explorer is non-vertical at

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launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air

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Force Station in Florida the booster was

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lifted up in the complexes vertical

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integration facility on May 28 2020 the

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Mars perseverance rover is scheduled to

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launch in mid-july aboard the Atlas 5

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541 rocket part of NASA's Mars

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exploration program perseverance to

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search for habitable signs of past

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microbial life on the Red Planet

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NASA launch services program at Kennedy

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is responsible for launch management for

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more inside KSC