NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Live Launch Coverage

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 enters the elevator inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. From left are JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Koichi Wakata, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, spacecraft commander, and Josh Cassada, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, mission specialist. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 enters the elevator inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. From left are JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Koichi Wakata, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, spacecraft commander, and Josh Cassada, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, mission specialist. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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