The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida on Sunday, Sept. 27. Groups raised the rocket to vertical place at Area Launch Advanced 40, the place it can await liftoff no sooner than 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 1.
On the pad, rocket and floor methods engineering groups carried out an built-in static fireplace of the Falcon 9, adopted by detailed information evaluations by operations groups.
The Crew-13 mission will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Area Company) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the Worldwide Area Station for a long-duration mission. They may conduct new and thrilling scientific analysis aboard the orbiting laboratory to arrange for human exploration past low Earth orbit and to profit life on Earth.
Whereas that is the primary spaceflight for Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatikov, Crew-13 will likely be Watkins’ second spaceflight, as she’s going to turn into the primary NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice.
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