NASA & SpaceX - Dragon Crew-1 Mission patch.
Nov. 15, 2020
Tune in to NASA Television or the agency’s website Sunday, Nov. 15, starting at 3:15 p.m. EST (8:15 p.m. GMT), for a live broadcast featuring continuous comprehensive launch day coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. From astronaut walkout, to launch, to the postlaunch news conference — NASA has you covered:
NASA Television: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, named Resilience by the crew, on top of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is targeted for Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:27 p.m. EST (Monday 0:27 a.m. GMT), from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
Image above: From left, Crew-1 astronauts Soichi Noguchi, Michael Hopkins, Shannon walker and Victor Glover pose for a photo in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience by the crew, inside the SpaceX hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on Nov. 8, 2020. Photo Credit: SpaceX.
Falcon 9 / Crew Dragon lift off. Animation Credit: SpaceX
A postlaunch news conference will be broadcast live (on NASA TV and the agency’s website) at the Florida spaceport Sunday, Nov. 15, at approximately 9 p.m. EST (Monday 4 a.m. GMT). Participants are:
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
SpaceX representative
Also, follow along right here on the blog for continued updates throughout the day, starting Sunday afternoon, right through the postlaunch news conference.
Related links:
Commercial Crew: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html
SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Image (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/James Cawley.
Best regards, Orbiter.ch
