Weather Forecast Shows 80% Chance ‘Go’ for SpaceX Crew-3 Launch Nov. 3 at Kennedy Space Center
By Space Coast Daily // November 1, 2021
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BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – NASA and SpaceX are targeting 1:10 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Nov. 3, for the agency’s Crew-3 launch to the International Space Station to allow additional time for spacecraft processing.
Launch is targeted for 1:10 a.m. ET.
The 45th Weather Squadron’s forecast shows an 80-percent chance ‘Go’ for launch due to slight chance of rain near the targeted launch window.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander, Tom Marshburn, pilot, and Kayla Barron, mission specialist as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, also a mission specialist, will launch on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Crew-3 astronauts are scheduled for a long-duration science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory, living and working as part of what is expected to be a seven-member crew.
With the Crew-3 launch date adjustment, return of Crew-2 with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, currently is planned for early November with splashdown of Crew Dragon Endeavour at one of seven landing zones off the coast of Florida.
