Florida: Watch live as the Crew Dragon ‘Resilience’ spacecraft takes off carrying astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the space station.
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting 7:27 p.m. EST Sunday, November 15, (5:57 am IST Monday, November 16,) for liftoff of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to fly astronauts from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station.
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Earlier the liftoff was targeted at 7:49 p.m. EST, Saturday, November 14 (6:19 am Sunday, November 15 Indian Standard Time (IST)), from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams moved the launch by one day because of onshore winds and to enable recovery of the first stage booster, which is planned to be reused to launch the Crew-2 mission next year. The booster is expected to land on the recovery ship about nine minutes after launch. The Crew Dragon is scheduled to dock to the space station around 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16.
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– globalbihari bureau
