(CNN) After weeks of delay, four astronauts are getting ready to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral on the first fully operational mission for a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover will crew the Resilience alongside Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut with Japan's JAXA space agency and veteran of NASA space shuttle and Russian Soyuz missions. From left to right, astronauts Soichi Noguchi, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins walk to the microphone at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday. - @VicGlover of @NASA_Astronauts anticipates the Nov. 14 liftoff from @NASAKennedy of the NASA @SpaceX Crew-1 mission. pic.twitter.com/H2bUXWY68f — NASA (@NASA) November 8, 2020Glover thanked everyone for their work on the upcoming launch.

Source: CNN November 09, 2020 01:30 UTC