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Detailed explanation-1: -11. Crew-2 is the second of six NASA and SpaceX crewed missions to fly as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which is working with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indeed, early in its history, SpaceX won a crucial contract from NASA to deliver cargo to the International Space Station - before it even made it to orbit. Since then, the company has gone from success to success - earning billions in awards along the way.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina will join the space station’s Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

Detailed explanation-4: -The red team includes personnel with 17 different skillsets who are specially trained to address a range of technical, engineering, facilities, safety, or logistics issues at the pad. During the Nov.