
Inside the SpaceX horizontal processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations are underway to roll the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon attached to Launch Complex 39A on Oct. 27, 2021 for NASA’s Space X Crew-3 mission. NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, along with Matthias Maurer, European Space Agency astronaut, will launch aboard the Crew Dragon on the Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 31. Launch is targeted for 2:21 a.m. from Pad 39A. Crew-3 is the third crew rotation flight for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and the first flight of a new Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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KSC-20211027-PH-SPX01_0006
Date Created
October 27, 2021
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SpaceX
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LC 39A
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