Attention: The given date and time for the Livestream is TBD (To Be Determined) and is related to official changes by NASA later this week.
The launch schedule for Saturday, November 6 and Sunday, November 7 isn't good due to the weather.
At the moment, the earliest launch date is Monday, November 8, 9:51 p.m. EST (November 9, 1:51 UTC / 03:51 CET), but there is only a 40% chance for a launch due to weather.
Teams will continue to monitor crew health as they evaluate potential launch opportunities at the end of the week.
The official insignia for NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 launch.NASA astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander, Tom Marshburn, pilot, and Kayla Barron, mission specialist as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, also a mission specialist, will launch on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The international crew entered their official quarantine on Oct. 16 and will travel to Kennedy in the coming days for final training and preparations prior to launch.
Crew-3 astronauts are scheduled for a long-duration science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory, living and working as part of what is expected to be a seven-member crew. Launch in November will guide to a short handover with the astronauts who flew to the station in April as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission.
With the Crew-3 launch date adjustment, return of Crew-2 with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, currently is planned for early November with splashdown of Crew Dragon Endeavour at one of seven landing zones off the coast of Florida.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 AT 12:30 AM UTC+02
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