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SpaceX Crew Dragon, 4 astronauts bound for space station William Harwood © William Harwood/CBS News 042221-f9.jpg With improving conditions expected on and off shore, SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for a pre-dawn launch Friday to boost a Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts into orbit for a one-day trip to the International Space Station. Liftoff from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center is targeted for 5:49 a.m. EDT Friday, setting up an automated rendezvous and doc...

SpaceX Crew-2 on Track for Launch April 23, NASA Celebrates Earth Day in Space Today A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is in view on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, as preparations continue for the Crew-2 mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as par...

51130235765_cc815b0c41_k.jpeg A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-2 mission, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsk...

UCSD Alum to Pilot NASA, SpaceX Crew-2 Launch of Reused Capsule Christina Bravo NASA astronaut and UCSD alum Megan McArthur. When the SpaceX Dragon launches to the International Space Station this week for its second operational crew mission, an astronaut with ties to San Diego will be at the helm of the spacecraft. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot the Dragon during the SpaceX Crew-2 mission alongside NASA comm...

Wednesdays Daily Pulse | 4/21/2021 What you should know about Florida’s new online sales tax law Florida on Monday enacted a new law requiring out-of-state online merchants to collect and remit sales tax, which supporters say will bring in an additional $1 billion a year that previously went uncollected. Here’s what it means to consumers. The law, which takes effect on July 1, is mainly concerned with what are called “marketplace facilitators” — platforms such as eBay, Etsy, Oversto...

SpaceX flight to ISS postponed by one day due to weather Issued on: 21/04/2021 - 18:56 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A Joel KOWSKY NASA/AFP 3 min Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) A crewed SpaceX mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to weather concerns downrange of the launch site, NASA said Wednesday. Liftoff had been...

Crew-2 mission: Meet the 4 astronauts set to lift off from the Space Coast Katlyn Brieskorn © Uncredited This Sunday, April 18, 2021 photo made available by SpaceX shows, from left, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide during a dress rehearsal at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their Thursday, April 22 launch. For the first time,...

2021-04-21 18:36:10 GMT2021-04-22 02:36:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English WASHINGTON, April 21 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the agencys Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to Friday due to unfavorable weather conditions. The launch was originally scheduled for early Thursday. Although conditions around the launch site were expected to be favorable for liftoff, mission teams also must consider conditions along the flight path and recovery ar...

--- After an hours-long pre-dawn review, officials at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday gave the all-clear for NASA and SpaceX teams to proceed with this weeks launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station. "We reviewed all the open work ... and we concluded that were go for launch," Steve Stich, manager of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, told reporters after the launch readiness review on Tuesday. "So were still on track for a 6:11 a.m. Eastern launch on Thursday." The completion...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission is ‘Go’ for Launch April 22 A SpaceX Crew-2 prelaunch news conference was held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2021. Participants included, from left to right: Steve Stich, manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program; Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program; Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX; Norm Knight, deputy manager, Flight Operations Directorate; Junichi Sakai, manager, International S...