After a number of delays, SpaceX is lastly (hopefully) prepared to start out its Crew-3 mission. SpaceX and NASA anticipate to lauch the Crew Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral at 9:03PM Eastern, and you’ll watch the livestream both right here utilizing the corporate’s YouTube channel, via the SpaceX website or NASA TV. Live protection begins at 4:45PM ET.

This is an instantaneous launch window, so any faults or climate points will immediate officers to delay Crew-3 liftoff to a “backup” on November eleventh at 8:40PM ET. SpaceX and NASA pinned earlier setbacks on climate, a minor crew medical challenge and the will to make means for Crew-2’s (since profitable) return.

This is SpaceX’s fifth crewed spaceflight. If all goes nicely, mission commander Raja Chari and crew members Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Matthias Maurer (the latter from the ESA) will dock with the International Space Station on November eleventh at 7:10PM ET. They’ll conduct science and in any other case take part in station actions till April 2022.