Flying crew on a fourth-flight booster will be a first for the Commercial Crew. Liftoff was delayed a day to take advantage of better weather along the East Coast in case of a launch abort and emergency splashdown. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft.
It flew initially in 2020 on the NASA Demo-2 mission, the first crewed flight for the Falcon 9. NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) is the only proven deep-space optimized, super-heavy lift rocket built to carry astronauts and cargo farther and faster than. The astronauts’ spouses and children huddled around the cars for one last “love you” before the caravan pulled away and headed to the pad in the predawn darkness.ĭespite the early hour, spectators lined surrounding roads to watch the Falcon take flight an hour before sunrise. SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 booster for a record 16th time, highlighting once again the company’s ability to reuse the first-stage booster for multiple space missions. This booster (B1058) was already somewhat famous before breaking SpaceXs re-flight record. Agustin Paullier / AFP - Getty ImagesĪ masked Musk met briefly with the astronauts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before they boarded white gull-winged Teslas from his electric car company. The launch was scheduled for Monday morning at 9 am ET, but was scrubbed after a. Thomas Pesquet, Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and Akihiko Hoshide, inside the capsule at at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fla., April 23, 2021. After multiple delays, it appears that SpaceX is finally going to blast this rocket for its first orbital mission. Saturday’s mission marked the first time SpaceX uses the same Falcon 9 booster for a twelfth flight. SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 booster for a record 16th time, highlighting once again the company’s ability to reuse the first-stage booster for multiple space. McArthur blew kisses and offered virtual hugs.Īlso flying SpaceX on Friday: Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide and France’s Thomas Pesquet, the first European to launch in a commercial crew capsule. The launch will be controlled from SpaceX’s Launch and Landing Control Center at CCSFS. This time it was Behnken and their 7-year-old son waving goodbye.
She launched in the same seat in the same capsule as her husband, Bob Behnken, did during SpaceX’s first crew flight.
For NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, it was a bit of deja vu.
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