The Mission That Has Been Delayed “Forever” Is Finally Lifting Off!

The Crew-1 mission, again using a Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket; Again a cooperation between SpaceX and NASA; And, again, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on pad LC-39A, is launching on Nov 15th at 7:27 p.m. EST (on Nov 16th at 00:27 UTC).

Not to be confused with the similar mission Demo-2, that launched earlier this year, the Crew-1 mission isn’t exactly “new”. It was originally designed “USCV-1 (United States Crew Vehicle, mission 1)” by NASA, and planned to be launched in Nov of 2016, but was delayed several times, until now. The mission is to reach the ISS carrying a crew of 4 astronauts, NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi. If it is successful, then it’ll be the first crew orbital flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the ISS.

“I sure hope it will not be delayed again, because if you keep changing dates and put something on hold, then no matter how good it might be, it will never happen,” said Tigger today. “Maybe I will just watch the recording because I don’t think I can get up at dawn.”