Live launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission, beginning with astronaut suit-up inside the iconic Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building and continuing through launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. The SpaceX Dragon, Freedom, launched at 3:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, mission commander, Bob Hines, pilot, and Jessica Watkins mission specialist and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, also a mission specialist. Freedom is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station at 8:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 27.
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NASA ID
KSC-20220427-VP-CDC01-0001-SpaceX_Crew_4_Live_Launch_Coverage-3301760-LOWERBITRATE
Date Created
April 27, 2022
Center
KSC
Media Type
video
Photographer
NASA/Chris Chamberland
Location
Launch Complex 39A
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