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The next astronauts to ride a SpaceX rocket arrive at Florida launch site
A crew of four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday (Nov. 8) in advance of SpaceX's second astronaut launch for NASA this week.
NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker, along with Japanese astronaut, Soichi Noguchi, were all smiles as they stepped off a plane that was parked on the former space shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Their mission, called Crew-1, will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on an 8.5-hour trip to the International Space Station. Liftoff is set for Saturday (Nov. 14) at 7:49 p.m. EST (0049 GMT on Nov. 15) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida — if weather permits.
For NASA, this flight marks the highly-anticipated start of regular crew rotations at the International Space Station, with private companies ferrying the astronauts. On this flight there will be double the number of crew members as on the Demo-2 test flight earlier this year, and the mission will span six months.
https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival
NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker, along with Japanese astronaut, Soichi Noguchi, were all smiles as they stepped off a plane that was parked on the former space shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Their mission, called Crew-1, will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on an 8.5-hour trip to the International Space Station. Liftoff is set for Saturday (Nov. 14) at 7:49 p.m. EST (0049 GMT on Nov. 15) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida — if weather permits.
For NASA, this flight marks the highly-anticipated start of regular crew rotations at the International Space Station, with private companies ferrying the astronauts. On this flight there will be double the number of crew members as on the Demo-2 test flight earlier this year, and the mission will span six months.
https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival
