The {hardware} that can fly SpaceX’s Crew-7 astronaut mission has made it to the launch pad.
SpaceX rolled its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule out to Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart (KSC) in Florida in a single day Sunday to Monday (Aug. 20 to Aug. 21).
The corporate marked the milestone by posting three images of the method on X (previously Twitter) on Monday morning. Every shot is a closeup of the bright-white Dragon, named Endurance, which stands out starkly towards the darkness of night time (or early morning).
The Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Endurance towards the Worldwide House Station (ISS) on Friday (Aug. 25) at 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 GMT). You may watch the Crew-7 liftoff right here at House.com when the time comes.
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Crew-7 will ship 4 atronauts to the ISS for a roughly six-month keep. The quartet consists of NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, Endurance’s commander; pilot Andreas Mogensen of the European House Company; mission specialist Konstantin Borisov of the Russian house company Roscosmos; and mission specialist Satoshi Furukawa of Japan.
The 4 astronauts arrived at KSC on Sunday to start last preparations for liftoff.
Endurance’s shiny and unblemished exterior belies its appreciable spaceflight expertise. The capsule additionally flew SpaceX’s Crew-3 and Crew-5 astronaut missions, which means it has made the harrowing, fiery return by way of Earth’s environment twice.
As its title signifies, Crew-7 would be the seventh operational astronaut mission that SpaceX flies to the ISS for NASA. However it is going to be the eleventh crewed orbital flight for the corporate general. SpaceX additionally launched the Demo-2 check mission in 2020 and three personal orbital flights — Inspiration4 in September 2021, Ax-1 in April 2022 and Ax-2 in Might 2023.