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@NASAAstronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams are only days away from their Monday night launch to @Space_Station.

After completing a pair of back-to-back, 12-mission months, @SpaceX has begun an ambitious May launch schedule in fine style.

May "may" be only 2 days young, but @SpaceX flight rate shows no signs of slowing down with 2 launches completed already.

As @NASAAstronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for their Monday night launch to @Space_Station, they will fly a crew-carrying spacecraft which has taken an agonizing decade to reach fruition.

OTD in 1961, Alan Shepard became America's first man in space. Shadowed by Yuri Gagarin's pioneering orbital flight three weeks earlier, it proved an enormous shot in the arm for the United States.

@NASAAstronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams are only hours away from their long-awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to @Space_Station.

@SpaceX has successfully flown its third Falcon 9 mission of May, only hours before @NASAAstronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to launch to @Space_Station.

@NASAAstronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams must wait until NET Friday for their long-awaited CFT Starliner mission to @Space_Station, following a Monday night scrub.

As @ULALaunch prepares for a week-plus stand-down of CFT, @SpaceX is ready for a Wednesday double-header of Falcon 9 missions from the East and West Coasts.

Last week, the Artemis 2 crew completed a "day in the life" test where they rehearsed the first day of their mission inside an Orion mockup. The simulation allowed them to practice eating, sleeping, and moving about inside the cabin.