If the weather turns and conditions at the pad (or down-range off the Atlantic coast) sour, NASA and SpaceX are targeting Wednesday, November 18, as a backup date.
NASA SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH TIME UPDATE
The mission was delayed again this week due to poor weather conditions at the Cape.Īccording to a NASA update this morning, conditions for launch are 50 percent favorable.
The mission has been delayed a number of times, first when engineers discovered an issue with the lacquer on one of SpaceX's Merlin engines (both NASA and SpaceX say they have identified the issue and are confident in the mission's success). The astronauts will suit up and leave for the launch pad around 4:00 p.m. EST and lift off from Launch Complex 39a at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If all goes according to plan, Falcon 9 will roar to life at 7:27 p.m.
Just after sundown tonight, NASA and Japan's space agency, JAXA, will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule. NASA and SpaceX analyzed data from the Demo-2 mission, which launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley earlier this year. NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Mike Hopkins, as well as JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will join the International Space Station's current inhabitants. Tonight, NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch the first ever "operational" Crew Dragon mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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