Copernical Team
Mission Alpha launch in images
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Mission Alpha launch in images
Image gallery of the Mission Alpha
SpaceX set for pre-dawn launch to ISS
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SpaceX is set to launch its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise Friday, recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time.
The Crew-2 mission blasts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 am Eastern Time (0949 GMT), after being delayed a day by adverse weather along the flight path.
Around 2:30 am (0630 GMT), Thomas Pesquet of France—the first European on a SpaceX mission—along with Americans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide strode out in their suits to say goodbye to their families.
Astronauts arrive at pad for SpaceX flight on used rocket
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Earth from Space: Laizhou Bay
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the sediment-stained waters in Laizhou Bay, located on the southern shores of the Bohai Sea, on the east coast of mainland China.
Crew Dragon liftoff to orbit
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Crew Dragon liftoff to orbit Crew Dragon countdown to liftoff
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Crew Dragon countdown to liftoff Crew Dragon rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station
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Crew Dragon rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station Crew Dragon countdown to the launchpad
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Crew Dragon countdown to the launchpad NASA's Mars helicopter makes second flight
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NASA successfully carried out a second flight on Mars on Thursday of its mini helicopter Ingenuity, a 52-second sortie that saw it climb to a height of 16 feet (five meters).
"So far, the engineering telemetry we have received and analyzed tell us that the flight met expectations," said Bob Balaram, Ingenuity's chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California.
SpaceX aims for 3rd crew launch hour before Friday's sunrise
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