NASA is asking people to refrain from traveling to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the historic Space X launch on May 27 due to the coronavirus.
It’s standard for astronauts to enter into preflight quarantines to limit their exposure to pathogens in their environment, and those procedures will be even more important for the upcoming SpaceX launch. Beyond concerns about Behnken’s and Hurley’s health, NASA must also take care to not transmit the virus to the crewmembers who are already aboard the orbiting laboratory.
NASA and SpaceX have also instituted protocols to protect their on-site employees, including those who will be performing critical functions to support the astronauts and their mission, Lueders said. The upcoming Crew Dragon launch will be the first time that American astronauts lift off aboard an American-made rocket from the U.S. since 2011, when NASA retired its space shuttle fleet.
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