NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Live Launch Coverage

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, spacecraft commander, is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. Mann, along with NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, pilot, and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will launch to the International Space Station on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endurance spacecraft lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, spacecraft commander, is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. Mann, along with NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, pilot, and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will launch to the International Space Station on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endurance spacecraft lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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