Crew-11 launch to stream dwell on Netflix, Prime: Here’s how one can watch

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The launch of 4 astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station generally known as Crew-11 would be the first NASA mission to stream on Netflix.

• NASA and SpaceX are companions on the Crew missions, which ship astronauts to the ISS for months-long scientific expeditions.
• The Crew-11 mission is because of get off the bottom no sooner than Thursday, July 31, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• Viewers have loads of methods to observe together with NASA’s deliberate dwell protection of each the Falcon 9 launch and Dragon’s arrival on the area station.

The subsequent rocket to launch on a mission transporting astronauts to area is coming to a streaming platform close to you.

Two main streaming companies – Netflix and Amazon Prime – will present NASA’s protection of a mission generally known as Crew-11 getting off the bottom from Florida. While the U.S. area company’s dwell cosmic programming has been available on Prime since May, the upcoming mission marks the primary launch with astronauts to be broadcast on Netflix – one of many largest streaming platforms on the planet.

The 4 astronauts chosen for the Crew-11 mission, a three way partnership between NASA and SpaceX, are resulting from journey to the International Space Station about 250 miles above Earth. At the orbital laboratory, the spacefarers will spend a couple of months performing scientific analysis designed to be carried out in microgravity.

But the in any other case routine mission additionally bears a little bit extra significance: The Crew-11 astronauts will substitute the Crew-10 contingent who arrived in mid-March on the area station in a headline-grabbing spaceflight that set the stage to finish the notorious Starliner saga.

Here’s what to know in regards to the upcoming launch, in addition to how one can watch a livestream of the SpaceX rocket get off the bottom from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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What is Crew-11? What to find out about NASA, SpaceX mission

As the title suggests, Crew-11 is NASA and SpaceX’s eleventh science expedition to the International Space Station.

The missions, most of which final about six months, are contracted below NASA’s commercial crew program. The program permits the U.S. area company to pay SpaceX to launch and transport astronauts and cargo to orbit aboard the corporate’s personal automobiles, releasing up NASA to concentrate on its Artemis lunar program and different spaceflight missions, together with future crewed voyages to Mars.

The arrival of the astronauts chosen for the Crew-11 mission on the area station may even pave the way in which for 4 others to go away. Their Crew-10 predecessors arrived on the ISS in mid-March in a headline-grabbing mission that set the stage for the long-awaited departure of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams − the NASA astronauts who crewed the ill-fated Boeing Starliner area capsule.

The Crew-10 astronauts – NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, Japanese JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov – will depart a couple of days after their replacements arrive to make a water landing off the coast of California.

What time is the launch of Crew-11 mission from Florida?

The Crew-11 mission is due to get off the ground no sooner than 12:09 p.m. ET Thursday, July 31, from close to Cape Canaveral, Florida, based on NASA.

SpaceX makes use of its Falcon 9 rocket – one of the most active in the world – to launch the crew missions from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The astronauts themselves trip a Dragon crew capsule – the only U.S. spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts to and from the area station.

The Falcon 9 accelerates to approximately 17,500 miles per hour after liftoff earlier than the Dragon separates in orbit to make use of its personal thrusters to energy its method to the area station. NASA and SpaceX mission management will monitor a sequence of maneuvers guiding Dragon to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Harmony module, the place it’s anticipated to dock autonomously round 3 a.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 2, based on NASA.

How to observe livestream of Crew-11 launch on Netflix, Prime

Viewers have loads of methods to observe together with NASA’s planned live coverage of each the Falcon 9 launch and Dragon’s arrival on the area station.

Launch protection begins at 8 a.m. ET Thursday, July 31, on NASA+, the U.S. company’s free streaming platform. Content by NASA+ is out there to observe on desktop from the agency’s official site and YouTube channel, and could be downloaded as a mobile app on smartphones.

NASA has additionally lately made all the platform’s content material accessible on Amazon Prime and Netflix.

NASA+ made its debut in May on Prime’s live channels, accessible to customers even and not using a subscription.

But viewers will want a Netflix subscription to view NASA content material on the favored platform, which boasts a global audience of 700 million people. Viewers ought to be capable to discover dwell NASA+ content material within the Netflix interface alongside different well-liked sequence.

A post-launch information convention is scheduled to happen at 1:30 p.m. ET and might be accessible solely on NASA’s YouTube channel.

NASA+ protection is scheduled to renew round 1 a.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 2, because the Dragon approaches and docks on the area station, adopted by the hatch opening round 5:30 a.m. to permit the crew to enter the station and greet the opposite astronauts.

Who are the astronauts on the Crew-11 mission?

The Crew-11 mission includes four spacefarers:

• Mission commander Zena Cardman, a NASA astronaut from Virginia
• Pilot Mike Fincke, a NASA astronaut from Pennsylvania
• Mission specialist Kimiya Yui, a Japanese astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Mission specialist Oleg Platonov, a Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut

Eric Lagatta is the Space Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com