SpaceX is about to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its Crew Dragon spaceship. Here’s what to expect.

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Twenty years later Elon Musk based SpaceX, the rocket business is preparing to start its very first people.
On Wednesday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship in planning to ride it to space beneath a Falcon 9 rocket. 
The Demo-2 test mission for NASA will be set to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 4:33 p.m. ET, also just take about nine minutes to achieve orbit.
Behnken and Hurley will fly to the International Space Station, in which they’ll remain for approximately 3 weeks. Then they’ll scale back inside the space capsule, then return to Earth, and then parachute to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Considering that Elon Musk shaped SpaceX at 2002, the company has turned the spaceflight industry upside-down with dozens of reusable rocket launches. 

For all its achievements SpaceX hasn’t flown a person into space.

That’s going to change. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have put on their spacesuits, climbed aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spaceship, also are preparing to ride on the gumdrop-shaped automobile into orbit atop a 23-story Falcon 9 rocket.

Liftoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

The astronauts’ Demo-2 mission will be SpaceX’s first human-rated flight and its second full test flight for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The goal of the roughly $8 billion effort is to restore American access to space with commercial partners. SpaceX is poised to achieve the feat before its competitor, Boeing. NASA retired all of its space shuttles in July 2011, so has been relying on Russian spacecraft to shuttle astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station since then.

If Behnken and Hurley arrive successfully at the space station, they may stay for more than 100 days.

Here’s every notable step of SpaceX’s first crewed flight, which will be the company’s most critical, dangerous, and historic mission to date.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are poised to make spaceflight history on Wednesday, both for the US and SpaceX.
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At 4:33 p.m. ET, the two NASA astronauts are scheduled to ride SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship into orbit — a test flight called Demo-2 — thereby becoming SpaceX’s first human passengers.
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Behnken and Hurley’s mission began in earnest on May 13: when the astronauts checked into quarantine at a living facility on the grounds of Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Although NASA and SpaceX are moving forward with Demo-2 during the coronavirus pandemic, quarantines are standard: They help prevent crew members from getting sick while orbiting 250 miles away from the nearest hospital.

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