NASA, SpaceX Move to Final Crew-13 Prelaunch Prep for Oct. 1 Liftoff
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 11:10 a.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 1, as the earliest launch opportunity for the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. Over the next several days, teams will complete a series of prelaunch activities and intensive reviews to confirm the crew, the space station, and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, and Falcon 9 rocket […] The post NASA, SpaceX Move to Final…
NASA and SpaceX are preparing for the final prelaunch activities of the Crew-13 mission, which is scheduled to launch on October 1 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, will spend several days undergoing intensive reviews and completing necessary tasks to ensure the crew, spacecraft, and space station are ready for liftoff.
The Crew-13 mission will dock to the Harmony module of the International Space Station approximately 8 p.m. EDT on October 1, just 9 hours after arriving at the orbiting laboratory. Once docked, the astronauts will become members of Expedition 75 aboard the space station. The crew is currently in quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, having traveled to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, September 26.
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