SpaceX F9 - Crew 5 - LC-39A

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Launch Date: October 5
Launch Window: 12:00pm EDT (9:00am PDT, 16:00 UTC)
Launch site: LC-39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Booster Recovery: ASDS - ASOG
Booster: B1077.1
Dragon: Crew Dragon, C210.2 Endurance
Mass: Crew Dragon: 12,519 kg (27,600 lb)
Orbit: LEO - ISS
Dragon Return - March 11
Yearly Launch Number: 45th

Crew for Expedition 68:
Commander: Nicole Mann, NASA
Pilot: Josh Cassada, NASA
Mission Specialist 1: Koichi Wakata, JAXA
Mission Specialist 2: Anna Kikina, Roscosmos

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on its eighth flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea.

This is slated to be the first Crew Dragon mission to fly a Russian cosmonaut, Anna Kikinawho was selected in July 2022 for this mission as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station, and the ability to maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period. This will therefore become the first time a Russian cosmonaut flies on a U.S. spacecraft since Nickolai Budarinwho flew upon STS-113. The seat exchange was approved in June 2022 (by the Russians only).

SpaceX Crew-5 - Wikipedia

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Crew Dragon Endurance - Wikipedia

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List of International Space Station expeditions - Wikipedia

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The booster for Crew 5 hit a bridge. This will cause a two week delay - at the very least. Here is NASA's statement about the incident.

 

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The booster that hit the bridge is a new one: B1077.

 

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SpaceX, NASA announce date for next Crew Dragon astronaut launch

SpaceX and NASA have settled on October 3rd for the company’s fifth operational astronaut launch, a mission that will also mark the first time a Russian cosmonaut flies on Crew Dragon. Initially scheduled to launch in early September, NASA announced in July that SpaceX’s Crew-5 launch was...

www.teslarati.com

 

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Coverage Set for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Events, Broadcast, Launch

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.

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From the YouTube link:

SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Monday, October 3 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s fifth science expedition mission (Crew-5) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window opens at 12:46 p.m. ET, 16:46 UTC, with a backup opportunity available on Tuesday, October 4 at 12:23 p.m. ET, 16:23 UTC.

Is October 3rd correct?

 

[Electroman]

From the YouTube link:



Is October 3rd correct?

 

[Nikxice]

Grendal has the correct date. The Crew 5 launch is scheduled for 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) Wednesday, Oct. 5, from pad 39A....Apparently SpaceX hasn't updated their website.

 

[Snerruc]

Launching in 17 minutes.

 

[Electroman]

Hmm? The video stream from SpaceX hasn't started yet, and is expected to start anytime now, where they will show the astronauts being driven to the launch pad and boarding Crew Dragon. The launch is closer to noon.

No idea why the webcast has not started yet. It should have started 15 minutes go.

 

[ecarfan]

Launching in 17 minutes.

Nope. See the post just above yours. Launch is Oct 5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1576942807419219969

 

[Nikxice]

The SpaceX/NASA TV link in Post #6 is live now. It's just under 3 hours to launch and the weather looks great. Commander Nicole and crew are about to board Dragon.

NASA has adopted the term "Crewed", however isn't this flight also "Manned"?

 

[ecarfan]

First two astronauts are onboard, second two are at the capsule door waiting.

 

[ecarfan]

NASA has adopted the term "Crewed", however isn't this flight also "Manned"?

I think that is an entirely appropriate — and long overdue — change in terminology to acknowledge the fact that astronauts have been either gender for awhile now, and in particular this particular crew is 50/50. Which is a good thing.

Edit: Oops, just got the joke. Good one!

 

[MyJoule]

Glad they made it uphill with no issues- Interesting that the booster wasn't inside the first circle on JRTI. It's been a while since we've seen one that off center

I like the zero G indicator- Einstein is responsible for much of the understanding of space and gravity- it's all relative

 

[ecarfan]

I was amused to see this view just as Falcon passed upwards out of view; obviously planned to highlight the next phase of space exploration…

 

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