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Later this month, if conditions allow, astronauts Robert Behnken (a St. Louis native!) and Doug Hurley will be the first astronauts to launch from America since the space shuttle retired in 2011. Both astronauts will launch aboard the Dragon Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, headed to the International Space Station.
Learn when and where to see the ISS by visiting the Heavens Above website, or NASA’s ‘Spot the Station’ page.