[ad_1]
After the separation of the stages, SpaceX will attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 on the unmanned spacecraft Just Read the Instructions, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX and NASA are aiming to launch the Falcon 9, the Dragon crew’s (Crew-1) first operational mission to the ISS on Sunday, November 15, from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The launch was announced on the SpaceX website.
The instant launch window opens at 7:27 pm EST on November 15, at 00:27 UTC on November 16. In Kiev at this time it will be 02:27 am. After the separation of the stages, SpaceX will attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 on the unmanned spacecraft Just Read the Instructions, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The launch webcast will run approximately 4 hours before launch.
As part of the commercial crew program, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will board the Dragon on its first six-month operational mission to the ISS. Following the second Dragon Demo mission (Demo-2), NASA certified SpaceX for operational crew flights to and from the space station.
Crew-1 is the first of three Dragon flights scheduled for 2020 and 2021.
It was also reported that SpaceX’s Falcon-9 space launch vehicles could be used by the US military for urgent transportation of cargo around the planet through space.
