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SpaceX simply notched one other milestone forward of its subsequent astronaut mission.
The corporate announced early Tuesday morning (Feb. 27) that it had carried out a static hearth check with the Falcon 9 rocket that may launch the Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA. Static fires are frequent prelaunch trials through which a rocket’s engines are ignited briefly whereas the car is anchored to the pad.
Crew-8 is scheduled to launch from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday (March 1) at 12:04 a.m. EST (0504 GMT), climate allowing. You’ll be able to watch the motion stay right here at Area.com.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk posted a photograph of the static hearth on X on Tuesday. The corporate did in order nicely via its official X account.
Crew-8 will ship 4 astronauts to the ISS for a roughly six-month keep: NASA’s Matthew Dominick (the mission’s commander), Michael Barrett (pilot) and Jeannette Epps (mission specialist), and Alexander Grebenkin (mission specialist) of Russia’s area company, Roscosmos.
Crew-8 would be the first mission for this explicit Falcon 9. However the Crew Dragon capsule that may carry the 4 spaceflyers is a veteran. The car, known as Endeavour, already has 4 crewed ISS missions beneath its belt, together with 2020’s Demo-2, the primary astronaut mission that SpaceX ever flew.
