Crew-9
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Weather Forecast During Launch
According to weather officials, there’s a 70% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch.
Crew
Nick Hague
- Birthday: 09/24/1975
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 10/11/2018
- Last Flight: 09/28/2024
Tyler Nicklaus Hague is an American Flight Test Engineer and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.
Selected to be a flight engineer of Expedition 57 / 58 to the International Space Station, he launched on board Soyuz MS-10, which aborted shortly after launch on October 11, 2018.
Aleksandr Gorbunov
- Birthday: 05/24/1990
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: Russian
- First Flight: 09/28/2024
- Last Flight: 09/28/2024
Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the military department with a specialty in operation and repair of aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Before being selected as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Space Corporation Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Mission
Location
Rocket
Landing
Core B1085
Booster B1085 last launched 11/07/2024 and has seen 3 successful launches and landings. Booster to be flown during the Crew-9 mission.
Landing Zone 1 – LZ-1
LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Agency
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Next stop IIS.
Happy that space x has got Boeing’s back
Lets ride this one SpaceX……..
I’m sure this has been discussed but I have not heard it so I am asking is it possible to bring the two astronauts at the space station home and this spacecraft?
That is the plan.
I have never seen a launch up close. Where would be a good place to watch? I will be driving up from southern FL.
Check out this page: https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/category/kennedy-space-center-rocket-launch-viewing/
Best places – Port Canaveral The beach near Port Canaveral and/or Cocoa Beach pier The shoulders of the road by the bridge on State Road 528 Titusville – near the intersection of State Road 50 and US 1. Anywhere along that stretch of road. And near the bridges. There will… Read more »
.re: astronaut spacesuits;
.inq: they do appear substantial, compared to spacewalk ones; was that why the recently returned ISS crew were hospitalized? this has been the impression at the onset even of Blue Origin flights;