Watch SpaceX Launch Its Third Crewed Mission to the Space Station

After a nine-day delay, NASA and SpaceX are making ready to launch the third operational industrial crew mission to the ISS. You can catch the motion stay proper right here.

The Crew-3 mission was presupposed to launch on October 31, however ongoing climate issues and a minor medical problem involving a crewmember resulted within the delay. The window for in the present day’s launch opens at 9:03 p.m. ET, as NASA and SpaceX are actually able to ship 4 astronauts to the International Space Station. Pre-launch protection begins at 4:45 p.m. ET, which you’ll be able to watch at NASA TV, SpaceX, or on the video feed offered under.

As traditional, a Falcon 9 will carry out the heavy lifting. The trusty SpaceX rocket will depart from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a shiny new Crew Dragon capsule, known as Endurance, together with it. Following separation, the Falcon 9 first stage will try a touchdown on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, at present stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.

The forty fifth Weather Squadron has assigned a 70% probability of favorable climate circumstances for launch, the considerations being cumulus clouds and “flight through precipitation.” In the occasion of a scrub, the following launch window opens on Thursday, November 11 at 8:40 p.m. ET.

The Crew-3 mission contains NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The crew gained’t arrive on the ISS till tomorrow night (it’s a 22-hour journey), so that they’ll possible make good use of SpaceX’s upgraded bathroom. The crew will stay on the ISS for a six-month science mission.

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Crew-3 will be SpaceX’s third operational commercial crew mission for NASA and its fifth human spaceflight mission overall, the additional two being the inaugural Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission and the private Inspiration4 mission. Putting people into space is something that SpaceX is now doing on the regular.

Once at the ISS, the Crew-3 crew will join Expedition 66, already in progress. Waiting for them at the hatch will be Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Endurance will arrive at the ISS on Thursday, November 11 at 7:10 p.m., with the hatch opening at 8:45 p.m. ET.

Crew-2, consisting of NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet, splashed down off the coast of Florida on Monday evening. It was a uncommon case through which ISS crew members went dwelling prior to the arrival of their replacements—a scheduling quirk attributable to the delayed launch of Crew-3.

Earlier in the present day, flight controllers successfully repositioned the ISS to the next altitude to stop a possible collision with area junk. NASA says the unscheduled process may have no bearing on the launch of Crew-3 or its arrival on the ISS.