SpaceX is poised to launch its subsequent astronaut mission at this time (July 31), and you’ll watch the motion reside.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the four-person Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at this time at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT).
You may watch the liftoff reside right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA. The company’s protection will start at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).
Crew-11 will ship NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, together with Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the ISS for a roughly six-month keep. Cardman is the mission’s commander, Fincke is the pilot and Yui and Platonov are mission specialists.
If all goes to plan, the mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, will dock with the orbiting lab on Saturday (Aug. 2) round 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT). You can watch that milestone reside as effectively.
The Crew-11 astronauts will relieve the 4 members of SpaceX’s Crew-10, who arrived at the ISS in March. Crew-10 will head dwelling to Earth just a few days after Crew-11 docks.
As its identify suggests, Crew-11 would be the eleventh operational astronaut mission SpaceX flies to and from the ISS below its contract with NASA’s Industrial Crew Program.
The corporate has extra human spaceflights below its belt than that, nevertheless; it flew a crewed check mission to the station in 2020, for instance, and has additionally launched seven non-public astronaut missions to orbit.
Crew-11 would be the first spaceflight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke. It will likely be the sixth mission for Endeavour, which is SpaceX’s most-flown Crew Dragon capsule.