NASA and SpaceX want two more days to get Crew-7's launch pad set up properly.
atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Wednesday night from Pad 39A.
"Because of the turnaround of the launch pad from that Falcon 9 Heavy configuration to the configuration we use for crew, we'll adjust the launch date to the 17th of August," Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said during a news conference today.Crew-7's liftoff will occur at 6:56 a.m. EDT on Aug. 17, Stich added. You can watch the launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX.
The mission will send four people — NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov — to the ISS aboard a SpaceXIf all goes according to plan, Endurance will dock with the orbiting lab about 20 hours after launch, around 2:45 a.m. EDT on Aug. 18, Stich said today. That arrival will get the wheels turning on the departure of SpaceX's Crew-6 mission, which reached the ISS on March 3.
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