SpaceX is poised to launch its subsequent astronaut mission Friday (Aug. 1), and you may watch the motion stay.
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 Friday at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT). That’s a day later than initially deliberate; SpaceX tried to launch the mission Thursday (July 31) however was thwarted by unhealthy climate.
You can watch the liftoff stay right here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA. The company’s protection will start at 7:35 a.m. EDT (1135 GMT).
Crew-11 will ship NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, together with Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) 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’ll be capable to watch that milestone stay as effectively.
The Crew-11 astronauts will relieve the 4 members of SpaceX’s Crew-10, who arrived on the ISS in March. Crew-10 will head residence to Earth just a few days after Crew-11 docks.
As its title suggests, Crew-11 would be the eleventh operational astronaut mission SpaceX flies to and from the ISS underneath its contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The firm has extra human spaceflights underneath its belt than that, nonetheless; it flew a crewed check mission to the station in 2020, for instance, and has additionally launched seven personal 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 would be the sixth mission for Endeavour, which is SpaceX’s most-flown Crew Dragon capsule.
Editor’s word: This story was up to date at 10:15 p.m. ET on July 31 with the brand new launch date of Aug. 1.