EDT (1324 UTC) Monday to begin an eight-day stay at the complex. With the on-time launch Sunday, Whitson and her crewmates will dock at the space station’s Harmony module at 9:24 a.m. Nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines flashed to life and powered the Falcon 9 off the pad with 1.7 million pounds of thrust, sending the rocket and crew on a trajectory northeast over the Atlantic Ocean to take aim on the space station. SpaceX dodged a risk of anvil clouds from nearby thunderstorms that threatened to violate the Falcon 9’s weather criteria. EDT (2137:09 UTC), when Earth’s rotation brought Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center under the orbital path of the International Space Station. The 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted of at 5:37:09 p.m. EDT (1900 UTC) Sunday, then ground teams evacuated the pad to allow SpaceX to start loading liquid propellants into the Falcon 9 rocket shortly after 5 p.m. The four-person crew strapped into their seats on SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft around 3 p.m. Follow us on Twitter.įormer NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with more time in space than any other American, rocketed back into orbit for the fourth time Sunday, riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher from Florida with a fare-paying investor and private pilot, and the first two Saudi Arabian astronauts to fly to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 will launch SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft with four commercial astronauts on the Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station. EDT (2137 UTC) on Sunday, May 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All rights reserved.Watch a replay of our coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:37 p.m. Viewing Vandenberg Rocket and Missile Launches.Ĭopyright © 2001-2023, Brian Webb. For additional information on Vandenberg SFB launches, refer to.Instead of providing the launch window, a launch period is often announced.Ī launch period is a large block of time within which the launch window falls. Not released until about T-18 to T-4 hours. Prior to the launch of a classified payload, the exact launch time is usually.Launch dates are fluid and tend to change over time.
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