'This is a test flight...We have never put humans on this rocket before.' — Jim Bridenstine ABC News' GioBenitez speaks with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ahead of the planned NASA and SpaceX launch into space.
The mission passed its Flight Readiness Review, the final major hurdle before lift-off, on Friday.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participate in a test of critical crew flight hardware on March 30, 2020, at a SpacerX processing facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.The coronavirus pandemic down here on Earth took center stage during a virtual news briefing with the astronauts on Friday.
Behnken added, however, that this is the first time,"we've seen the rest of the world have to take on the same precautions that we do leading up to the launch." "I hope the nation can look at this and recognize that this is something that we are still going to accomplish, this is still something that we are still going to be successful at and we’re going to do it in the face of the pandemic," he added."We’ll figure out a way to work through it and work around it."
"These are different times, but it is also a time when we need to be doing amazing things as a nation and inspiring the entire world and that’s what we’re doing," Bridenstein said. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen as it is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission, May 21, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.SpaceX and Boeing have been competing to be the first to launch NASA astronauts to the ISS.
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