NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch

[Mushtang]

A decade in the making, NASA and SpaceX have set May 27 as the target launch date for the first crewed space mission to launch into orbit from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, two veterans of the shuttle program, will ride SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That’s the same historic launch facility used by the last space shuttle flight.

Liftoff time on May 27 is expected to be around 4:32 p.m. EDT (2032 GMT), when the Earth’s rotation brings the launch pad under the orbital plane of the International Space Station.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/17/nasa-spacex-set-may-27-as-target-date-for-first-crew-launch/


Or... sometime late October. We'll see what happens.

 

[Huxter]

I wish, I wish, with all my heart...

… that we get video 24/7!

Go Bob and Doug eh?! Good luck!

Can't wait to see Dragon spread her wings!

 

[BBowmaster]

I’m thrilled and terrified. I worry about a failure and what it would cost us. That said, I’d climb on board tomorrow. Elon, Gwen and the rest of the SpaceX crew are very much heroes to me.

 

[Mugs914]

Is Crew Dragon big enough for them to be six feet apart?

 

[Huxter]

Maybe Dragon XL !?

 

[afadeev]

This should be fun to watch.

I love SpaceX launch video feeds.
The next one should be Starlink 6 launch at around 3:16 p.m. EDT on 4/23: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

 

[Marc_G]

My personal pucker factor for the first manned launch is beyond measure. Go SpaceX!

 

[Mushtang]

 

[JCRL]

It's going to be a nailbiter. Go SpaceX!