The Crew-7 launch scheduled for early Friday morning was scrubbed.NASA says everything is working fine, but they want more time to make sure it is safe. Specifically, the team wants to do more analysis on the Dragon capsule’s environmental control and life support system. That system provides clean air and water to the crew inside the space craft. The next launch opportunity is Saturday at 3:27 a.m.At the Kennedy Space Center’s launch complex 39A, the Dragon Crew Capsule ‘Endurance’ sat atop its powerful Falcon 9 rocket, ready for liftoff with the promise to reshape the future of space travel.The NASA SpaceX Crew-7 mission has four astronauts from four different space agencies, a first for the commercial crew program. Commanding is NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency will serve as pilot, and mission specialists from their countries’ respective agencies are Russian Konstantin Borisov and Satoshi Furukawa from Japan.“Even the astronauts can’t truly know the tens of thousands of people that are dedicating their lives to their safety. So everything is double and triple, quadruple checked,” Nicole Jordan with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program said.Heading up with them to the International Space Station are over 80 new science investigations that the crew will be working on, along with hundreds of others already onboard the space lab.There’ll be a special focus on zero gravity’s impact on the human body. It’s part of a broader study on deep space exploration.“While we think about hazards like radiation and isolation, microgravity is one of those big hazards. So LEO, or low earth orbit, the International Space Station is a fantastic analog for us to understand what we need to be preparing for,” Kirstin Fabe of NASA’s Human Research Program said.A successful launch rehearsal was completed Tuesday morning. A new Launch Control Center was certified this week on the SpaceX HangerX complex and will be used for the first time on the Crew-7 mission. The new center will allow all the SpaceX and NASA Commercial Launch managers to be much closer together than at the previous facility in the NASA LCC. They’ll all be in the same room now.“In the new HangerX LLCC, we are actually able to sit with everybody in the same room. The engineer control room, also known as the engineering palace, is what SpaceX refers to it as. But it has a tight-knit team,” NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Mission Manager, Jarel Lawrence, said.The team had been hoping the steps ahead go smoothly for that pre-dawn liftoff on Friday.“It’s a comfortable feeling for everybody to actually talk amongst themselves if we have to work on any issues or look at anything in particular when it comes down to the safety of the crew,” explained Jarel Lawrence, a NASA Commercial Crew Program Mission Manager.Where to watch Crew-7 launch onlineFor those eager to witness this historic NASA SpaceX Crew-7 mission and stay updated on all the latest developments, you can tune in to the live coverage on WESH.com. We’ll be offering a front-row seat to this groundbreaking event, with real-time streaming and comprehensive coverage of the liftoff, crew activities, and mission updates.
The Crew-7 launch scheduled for early Friday morning was scrubbed.
NASA says everything is working fine, but they want more time to make sure it is safe. Specifically, the team wants to do more analysis on the Dragon capsule’s environmental control and life support system.
That system provides clean air and water to the crew inside the space craft.
The next launch opportunity is Saturday at 3:27 a.m.
At the Kennedy Space Center’s launch complex 39A, the Dragon Crew Capsule ‘Endurance’ sat atop its powerful Falcon 9 rocket, ready for liftoff with the promise to reshape the future of space travel.
The NASA SpaceX Crew-7 mission has four astronauts from four different space agencies, a first for the commercial crew program. Commanding is NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency will serve as pilot, and mission specialists from their countries’ respective agencies are Russian Konstantin Borisov and Satoshi Furukawa from Japan.
“Even the astronauts can’t truly know the tens of thousands of people that are dedicating their lives to their safety. So everything is double and triple, quadruple checked,” Nicole Jordan with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program said.
Heading up with them to the International Space Station are over 80 new science investigations that the crew will be working on, along with hundreds of others already onboard the space lab.
There’ll be a special focus on zero gravity’s impact on the human body. It’s part of a broader study on deep space exploration.
“While we think about hazards like radiation and isolation, microgravity is one of those big hazards. So LEO, or low earth orbit, the International Space Station is a fantastic analog for us to understand what we need to be preparing for,” Kirstin Fabe of NASA’s Human Research Program said.
A successful launch rehearsal was completed Tuesday morning. A new Launch Control Center was certified this week on the SpaceX HangerX complex and will be used for the first time on the Crew-7 mission. The new center will allow all the SpaceX and NASA Commercial Launch managers to be much closer together than at the previous facility in the NASA LCC. They’ll all be in the same room now.
“In the new HangerX LLCC, we are actually able to sit with everybody in the same room. The engineer control room, also known as the engineering palace, is what SpaceX refers to it as. But it has a tight-knit team,” NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Mission Manager, Jarel Lawrence, said.
The team had been hoping the steps ahead go smoothly for that pre-dawn liftoff on Friday.
“It’s a comfortable feeling for everybody to actually talk amongst themselves if we have to work on any issues or look at anything in particular when it comes down to the safety of the crew,” explained Jarel Lawrence, a NASA Commercial Crew Program Mission Manager.
Where to watch Crew-7 launch online
For those eager to witness this historic NASA SpaceX Crew-7 mission and stay updated on all the latest developments, you can tune in to the live coverage on WESH.com. We’ll be offering a front-row seat to this groundbreaking event, with real-time streaming and comprehensive coverage of the liftoff, crew activities, and mission updates.