Both Booster and Dragon spacecraft are flight proven for today’s Crew-2 flight to the ISS.
NΛSΛ chooses flight-proven spacecraft and booster for its most precious missions. Dragon Pilot Megan McArthur is sitting in the very same seat that her husband Bob Behnken sat for the SpaceX DM-2 mission 11 months ago. Thank you for helping humanity raise its aspirations and dreams!
Megan gives an in-flight tour and here’s a highlight summary launch video
P.S. many years ago, when reusable boosters were an audacious dream, I heard them described as “used”, as in a used car. No, no, no I said, we should call them “flight proven” and I wagered that the long term data would show them to be safer than a first flight. “Would you want to be on the very first flight of a new airplane coming off the line?” I asked. The moniker became a meme.
and photos
Flight-proven Crew-2 Dragon takes flight. with sand under foot and zip line wires heading up to the pad for pre-launch escape option: 
I took a daytime shot from this location: 
I enhanced this incredible shot by Erik Kuna for SuperclusterHQ. The visual spectacle in the skies over Florida during this morning’s Crew-2 liftoff are strange and otherworldly. Many are describing the launch as the most beautiful they’ve ever witnessed.
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