Posted on 04/23/2021 12:15:12 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Watch live starting at 1:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 UTC), Fri., April 23, as four astronauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the International Space Station.
At 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC), the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will join the station's crew, for a mission of approximately six months.
This will be the first launch through our Commercial Crew Program to fly two international partner astronauts, and the first reuse of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket for a crew mission.
Once aboard the station, the Crew-2 astronauts will spend a lot of time on science — in areas such as medical technology, human health, and materials to benefit life on Earth. The space station is a unique scientific platform, enabling researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work on innovative experiments. It has instruments that monitor our home planet's global climate, environmental changes, and natural hazards.
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Thank-you for posting that. I can always count on freepers for the latest up to the minute news as well as the best links to go see it live. : )
Success!
Thank you for posting good American items on FR!
I was a space-age kid, born with Sputnik, and still love it (regret not getting into rocket science, hoping a nephew will).
Now, back to our regular programming of exposing leftist propaganda.
Beautiful view of the launch from my backyard here in Charleston. 5 minutes of amazing - even saw Falcon 9 startup of reentry rockets.
Great weather here in Central Florida. Drove about 2 miles to watch the launch from an open ranch area. Fascinating to watch both the ship and the first stage firing at the same time!
Saw my first launches back in 1956 from the beach at Patrick AFB... Watched countless launches over the intervening years...
I am jealous! Glad you got to see the launch in person.
I am in Central Florida as well and the launch was spectacular with the booster stages lighting up and starting to descend back to earth and they continued to fire the engines to slow down...
I was a space-age kid, born with Sputnik,
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I was a space age kid with Robert Goddard and Project Orion; back then, before politics became the guiding principle in space exploration.
One of my son’s developed an interest in space as a boy thanks to Buzz Lightyear. Later the movies October Sky and The Right Stuff furthered his interest.
At five he told my wife he wanted to build rockets at NASA.
He got his first job at NASA while he was still in college and currently works on a satellite mission.
I saw the launch, but not on the network news. NASA covered it on their own website.
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I just like watching the boosters land; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-fqsARYfrU
let me see on the spacex feed over 1,922,716 were watching
didnt have the NASA feed up, so much for the rot of america
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