SpaceX, NASA target Halloween launch for Crew-3 astronaut flight to space station - Space.com

Four astronauts are getting ready to launch from Florida.

NASA's next space station launch is set for Halloween and will put four more astronauts into space on a SpaceX rocket.

The launch will take place at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Television and SpaceX broadcast details will be released at a later date.

Riding to the orbiting complex on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will be NASA astronauts Raja Chari (mission commander), Tom Marshburn (pilot), and Kayla Barron (mission specialist), as well as European Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist Matthias Maurer3

Related: Crew-3 astronauts are ready and excited for 6-month SpaceX mission.

If for whatever reason the crew cannot make it to space on the prime launch date, the next backup launch time would be 1:10 a.m.

1, for a short handover with the astronauts who flew to the station in April as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission," NASA said in a statement. .

23 due to station traffic from other spacecraft and was previously scheduled to launch on Oct.

Coming back to Earth will be NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet!

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