• One Radio Amateur Aboard Historic SpaceX Launch

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 19:35:14
    05/27/2020

    If all goes according to plan, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, and Doug Hurley will make US space history today [May 27], as human spaceflight returns to the US for the first time in almost a decade. Behnken and Hurley will be on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the "test flight" powered by a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, headed to the International Space Station (ISS)."We are go for launch!" tweeted NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "SpaceX and NASA will continue monitoring lift-off and downrange weather as we step into the countdown. We are proceeding toward a 4:33 [EDT] launch."

    Back-up instantaneous launch opportunities are available on Saturday, May 30, at 1922 UTC, and on Sunday, May 31, at 1900 UTC. The "Demo-2" is the final major test for SpaceX's human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station, SpaceX said.

    Launch video[1] from the Kennedy Space Center is available on the SpaceX website.ÿ


    [1] https://www.spacex.com/launches/

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