Live: SpaceX Demo-2 Mission to Send Astronauts to Space Station

SpaceX is conducting a historic mission today, sending NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to space aboard the Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket.

Launch is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. ET.

Watch the livestream above.

 

[daniel]

They're on their way. Stage 1 landed successfully on the barge, though the feed cut out and we didn't get to see the landing. I've been on an 8-hour flight on a commercial jet, and a 12-hour flight, and it was miserable. Those poor astronauts now have a 19-hour flight in that tiny space capsule.

But kudos to SpaceX. First commercial launch of a rocket with people. Best wishes to them for a successful arrival at the ISS.

 

[MichaelP90DL]

Way to go, NASA and SpaceX! Brilliant! Video from the Crew Dragon reminded me of scenes from 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- cool and way stylish. Stanley Kubrick would have been fascinated.