Watch Live as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Launches to the ISS

NASA is preparing to launch the subsequent crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was declared a “go” for launch earlier this week.

The house company’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is scheduled for liftoff at this time at 5:50 pm AEST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As earlier than, SpaceX’s trusty Falcon 9 rocket will carry the crew capsule.

The launch will likely be broadcast dwell on NASA Television, as properly as the house company’s web site and app. You can even tune in to the motion by way of the dwell feed beneath, which is about to start Friday at 1:45 p.m with pre-launch protection.

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The absolutely worldwide Crew-7 is made up of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.

The four-person crew will journey on board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance, which handed a flight readiness evaluation on Wednesday. During a NASA briefing held on Thursday, house company officers stated that they’d cleared earlier considerations relating to corrosion on the isolation valves of a cargo Dragon spacecraft, that are designed to come on in case of a thruster leak. SpaceX changed a few of the valve elements on Endurance, in accordance to Steve Stich, NASA industrial crew program supervisor.

“Operations teams are not tracking any major issues with Falcon 9 or the Dragon spacecraft,” NASA wrote in a weblog publish.

Endurance is about to dock with the ISS at 4:02 pm on Saturday, dropping off the Crew-7 members to spend round six months on board the orbital lab.