SpaceX is poised to launch its subsequent astronaut mission at this time (July 31), and you’ll watch the motion dwell.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the four-person Crew-11 mission to the Worldwide House Station (ISS) for NASA from Kennedy House Middle in Florida at this time at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT).
You possibly can watch the liftoff dwell 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 dwell as nicely.
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 dwelling to Earth a number of 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 beneath its contract with NASA’s Business Crew Program.
The corporate has extra human spaceflights beneath its belt than that, nevertheless; it flew a crewed take a look at 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 will likely be the sixth mission for Endeavour, which is SpaceX’s most-flown Crew Dragon capsule.
