KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off at 7:03 p.m. EDT on Friday, March 14 from Launch Complex 39A from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a crew of 4 astronauts and cosmonauts.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, are experiencing 2 g while SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket go through a rapid succession of events.
It will take about 28.5 hours for the spacecraft to autonomously dock to the space station at 11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, March 15, while traveling 17,000 mph orbiting the Earth.
Coming up next, the nine Merlin engines on Falcon 9’s first stage will burn through one million pounds of propellant during the next three minutes.
Live coverage of the Crew-10 launch is broadcast on NASA+.
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