Where to watch the historic SpaceX Crew-1 launch this Saturday

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Where to watch the historic SpaceX Crew-1 launch this Saturday

Lia Rovira in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | November 12, 2020

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, November 14, 2020, for the historic launch of Crew-1, the 1st operational, contracted mission to launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Here’s how to watch the launch. If all goes according to plan, the crew will dock with the International Space Station on Sunday.

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SpaceX is targeting 7:49 p.m. EST (that’s 00:49 UTC the following day) on Saturday, November 14, 2020, for the launch of Crew-1 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew-1 is the first operational, contracted mission to launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. If all goes according to plan, the Crew Dragon – which the Crew-1 astronauts nicknamed Resilience – will dock with the International Space Station at around 4:04 a.m. EST (09:04 UTC) on Sunday.

Live launch coverage will begin at 20:30 UTC (3:30 p.m. EST), which you can stream anywhere via NASA TV or the SpaceX website. The launch date is subject to change, however, depending on weather and technical factors; it’s been previously delayed from October due to technical issues concerning Merlin rocket engines on the Falcon 9.

The Crew-1 spaceflyers – NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi – will stay on board the space station for a six-month mission, and have already begun their final preparations before liftoff. Their shiny new Falcon 9 ride to orbit rolled out to Pad 39A overnight on November 10 for a planned prelaunch static fire test today. That test is a part of normal launch procedures for SpaceX and ensures that the rocket is ready for flight.
 
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From where 4me is at, saw just about an Inch of the Flame as it rose Up Higher and Higher then all Gone from View... Still "Felt Great Inside" watching what 4me saw...!!!
 
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These Astornaughts are coming home today afer a 6 month stay on the International Space Station.
They are scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast about now :eek:
I saw the successful loading onto the Crew Dragon Spaceship named Resilience, earlier this evening (Saturday evening) and then the Undocking of the ship from the ISS.

It was to be a 6 hour flight to splash down.

They were to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound, deploy four parachutes and then glide to a gentle splashdown in the ocean at about 2:57 a.m. ET on Sunday morning.



This just in...
The Crew Dragon Resilience has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico.
In darkness, four astronauts splashed down early Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Fla.

The last time that NASA astronauts splashed down in the nighttime was in 1968, when the three astronauts of Apollo 8, the first to orbit the moon, returned to Earth.
 
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