Watch reside above, as Crew-8 takes to the skies on Sunday, March 3, 2024, headed for ISS.
Crew-8 postponed to tonight
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the Worldwide House Station was scheduled to raise off final evening (March 2, 2024). However unfavorable situations within the flight path of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft precipitated final evening’s launch to be scrubbed. At the moment, liftoff is focused for 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday evening, March 3 (0353 UTC on March 4). And NASA protection will start some hours earlier, at 6:45 p.m. on March 3 (00:45 UTC on March 4), highlighting launch actions and objectives for Crew-8.
Watch reside within the video above.
At current, Crew 8 is scheduled to raise off of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, powered by a Falcon 9 rocket, from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida. Members embrace:
• NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander
• NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, pilot
• NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, mission specialist
• Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Grebenkin, mission specialist
Crew-8 mission objectives
NASA stated:
Over 200 science experiments and expertise demonstrations will happen throughout Crew-8’s mission of roughly six months in space. Experiments will embrace utilizing stem cells to create organoid fashions to review degenerative ailments, finding out the results of microgravity and UV radiation on crops at a mobile degree, and testing whether or not carrying strain cuffs on the legs might forestall fluid shifts and cut back well being issues in astronauts.
Get the latest at NASA’s Crew-8 blog
Arrival at Kennedy House Middle in Florida
The Crew-8 arrival expertise. Nice spirits and a enjoyable interview in the present day with the media. Voice of astronaut Jeanette Epps. Protection for @earthsky #crew8 #space #launch #nasa pic.twitter.com/B6GFJOkdN7
— Greg Diesel Walck (@GregDieselPhoto) February 25, 2024
Backside line: The 4 space-goers in NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the Worldwide House Station are at the moment scheduled for an evening launch on March 3, 2024.
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