Author Topic: SpaceX F9 / Crew Dragon : Crew-2 - LAUNCH - RNDZ - DOCKING: Apr.23/25 - UPDATES (Read 142630 times)

Jansen · « **Reply #160 on:** 04/23/2021 08:18 am »

Close out team departing CAA

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #161 on:** 04/23/2021 08:19 am »

Close out team has departed the CAA

90 minutes to launch

Jansen · « **Reply #162 on:** 04/23/2021 08:23 am »

Launch escape system health checks completed

Jansen · « **Reply #163 on:** 04/23/2021 08:38 am »

Mission control

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #164 on:** 04/23/2021 08:39 am »

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1385513352760225792

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The crew is ready for liftoff

jacqmans · « **Reply #165 on:** 04/23/2021 08:49 am »

SpaceX Crew-2 Crew Walkout
Acting NASA Adminstrator Steve Jurczyk, back right, and SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk speak with NASA astronaut Bob Benkhen before Crew-2 NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-2 mission launch, Friday, April 23, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide are scheduled to launch at 5:49 a.m. EDT on Friday, April 23, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

jacqmans · « **Reply #166 on:** 04/23/2021 08:50 am »

SpaceX Crew-2 Crew Walkout

Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #167 on:** 04/23/2021 08:52 am »

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1385516607959703553

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T-60 minutes to the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew2 Dragon Endeavour to the ISS.

youtube.com/watch?v=ygvK7L…

jacqmans · « **Reply #168 on:** 04/23/2021 08:52 am »

SpaceX Crew-2 Crew Walkout

Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

jacqmans · « **Reply #169 on:** 04/23/2021 08:54 am »

SpaceX Crew-2 Crew Walkout

Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #170 on:** 04/23/2021 08:54 am »

55 minutes to liftoff.

In 10 minutes the final Go/No Go poll will occur.

In around 12 minutes the CAA will retract, and the LAS will be primed.

In 20 minutes, prop load will be starting