USCV-1: Dragon v2 Crew-1 – Falcon 9 (B1061.1 S) – Kennedy LC-39A – 16.11.2020 00:27 UTC

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2020/11/12/spacex-crew-1-weather-70-favorable-crew-dry-dress-rehearsal-today/

SpaceX Crew-1: Weather 70% Favorable, Crew Dry Dress Rehearsal Today

James Cawley
Posted Nov 12, 2020 at 11:36 am


NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission is targeting launch at 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 14, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will participate in a countdown dress rehearsal of the launch day events for the first crew rotation flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission is targeting launch at 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 14, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. The four crew members will arrive at the space station for docking a short time later at 4:20 a.m. on Sunday morning to join Expedition 64 for a six-month science mission.

The U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron now predicts a 70% chance of favorable weather conditions at the launch pad for lift off of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission based on Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch weather criteria. The primary weather concerns for the launch area will be cumulus clouds and flight through precipitation associated with Tropical Storm Eta.

Teams also will monitor weather conditions both for the launch area and downrange.

FORECAST DETAILS

Clouds                      Coverage            Bases (feet)             Tops (feet)

Cumulus               Broken               3,000                            8,000

Weather/Visibility: Isolated showers/7 miles

Temperature: 78 degrees

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 Chris B - NSF @NASASpaceflight 1 ч. назад

A sign of the times.

OCISLY arrives with Falcon 9 B1062.

A few hours later:

JRTI departs to catch Falcon 9 B1061 (after pushing Dragon Resilence uphill).

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11/12/2020 18:49 Stephen Clark

A new launch weather forecast issued this morning by the U.S. Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron shows some improvement, with forecasters now predicting a 70% chance of favorable conditions for launch at 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday (0049 GMT Sunday).

The primary weather concern for launch of the Crew-1 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday night is with possible violations of the cumulus cloud and flight through precipitation rules.

Tropical Storm Eta is forecast to cross the northern Florida peninsula today and head into the Atlantic Ocean, with improving weather expected along Florida's Space Coast beginning tonight.

"On Friday, a weak frontal boundary will push through the spaceport, clearing away much of the cloud cover and turning winds northerly," forecasters wrote this morning. "This boundary will likely begin moving back northward on Saturday as winds become easterly, developing a few showers. The primary launch weather concern Saturday evening will be the cumulus clouds and showers along the boundary."

The probability of weather violation in the 45th Weather Squadron's forecast does not take into account downrange wind and sea conditions in the Crew Dragon's abort zones, or upper level winds that might affect the Falcon 9 rocket's climb through the atmosphere. Those conditions will be evaluated in real-time on launch day.

The weather team expects isolated rain showers in the area at launch time Saturday. Otherwise, partly cloudy skies are forecast, with winds from the east at 12 to 17 mph, and a temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

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11/12/2020 20:19 Stephen Clark

The Dragon astronauts have received a weather briefing before donning their SpaceX launch and entry flight suits inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building here at the Kennedy Space Center.

Commander Mike Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are due to walk out of the O&C Building shortly before 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) to ride specially-branded Tesla Model X cars to pad 39A, where they will board the Crew Dragon spacecraft for today's launch dress rehearsal.

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11/12/2020 20:33 Stephen Clark

Today's dry dress rehearsal will end before the time in the countdown when propellant would be loaded into the Falcon 9 rocket.

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11/12/2020 21:17 Stephen Clark

The Dragon crew just drove by the KSC press site on the way to pad 39A.

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11/12/2020 21:20 Stephen Clark

Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi have arrived at pad 39A, where they are expected to ride an elevator to the 265-foot-level and walk across the crew access arm to the white room, where the Dragon hatch is open and the spacecraft is ready for boarding.

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Пока новее инфы нет

11/12/2020 21:46 Stephen Clark

At this time, the astronauts should be climbing into the Crew Dragon spacecraft through the ship's side hatch. They will strap in and perform their initial checks inside the capsule before SpaceX halts today's simulated countdown before the start of propellant loading.

Then the crew will exit the spacecraft and ride in the Tesla Model X cars back to crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout Building.

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 Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow 42 мин. назад

The Crew-1 astronauts have departed launch pad 39A in Tesla SUVs, heading back to crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center for a debriefing following today's launch dress rehearsal.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/11/12/nasas-spacex-crew-1-astronauts-rehearse-for-launch-day/

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Rehearse for Launch Day

James Cawley
Posted Nov 12, 2020 at 4:45 pm


From left, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, participate in a dress rehearsal on Thursday, Nov. 12, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in advance of Saturday's launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) participated in a countdown dress rehearsal of  launch day events. The crewmates are preparing to launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company's Falcon 9 rocket and fly to the International Space Station for a six-month science mission.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts began their day in the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside Kennedy's Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building. They put on their black-and-white SpaceX spacesuits, took the elevator down to the ground level and exited through a pair of double doors, where their transport vehicles — Tesla Model X cars — waited. With smiles and waves, they climbed in for the 20-minute ride to Launch Complex 39A.

The Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft have been in place on the launch pad since Monday evening, Nov. 9. Crew Dragon Commander Hopkins, Pilot Glover, and Mission Specialists Walker and Noguchi entered the Crew Dragon by way of the pad's Crew Access Arm and checked their communications systems before the hatch was closed. The rehearsal concluded with the go/no-go poll for Falcon 9 propellant loading, which normally occurs 45 minutes before launch.

Crew-1 is the first crew rotation flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the space station following the spacecraft system's official human rating certification. Liftoff is slated for Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:49 p.m. EST.

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Quick Questions With Crew-1

 NASA Johnson

11 нояб. 2020 г.

Go behind the online biography and hear the Crew-1 astronauts reveal their inner truths: favorite foods, guilty pleasures, the hardest part of training, and what's left on their space-career bucket list.  (And who loves salsa dancing, and shows it!)

youtu.be/pBa4mjXUW_o

(3:34)

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 Gavin - SpaceXFleet.com @SpaceXFleet 17 мин. назад

Dragon recovery ship GO Navigator will shortly pass Key West, on the voyage to the Gulf of Mexico.

The ship will be stationed in Pensacola to respond to any Crew-1 abort scenarios that require splashdown in the Gulf.

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 NOGUCHI, Soichi 野口　聡－（のぐち　そういち） @Astro_Soichi 1 ч. назад

#SpaceX #NASA #Crew1 just finished final dress rehearsal, getting ready for Saturday launch! Behind me is "real" #Dragon spacecraft. 打ち上げ前の最終ドレスリハーサル完了！#ドラゴン宇宙船 と接続するアクセスアームにて。

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АНОНС

Трансляция брифинга с главой НАСА перед пуском Crew-1

Countdown Clock Briefing With NASA Administrator

youtu.be/4WopL06_UqE

Начало трансляции - 13 ноября 2020 г. в 15:00 UTC / 18:00 ДМВ

Live from Kennedy Space Center, we're counting down to #LaunchAmerica. Join Administrator Jim Bridenstine and officials from NASA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for a preview of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission, set for liftoff on Sat., Nov. 14 at 7:29 p.m. EST. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of JAXA will launch aboard the Crew Dragon 'Resilience' spacecraft to the International Space Station.

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Это будет первый старт с 2011, когда на одном корабле летают больше 3 человек!

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Это будет первый старт с 2011, когда на одном корабле летают больше 3 человек!

Можно сказать что это вообще первый полёт 4-х человек на корабле капсульного типа

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Становится понятно, почему И.Маск не встречал в центре им. Кеннеди экипаж Crew-1 .

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3 ч
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327125840040169472

Происходит что-то чрезвычайно фальшивое. Сегодня проверили четыре раза  на ковид. Два теста дали отрицательный результат, два-положительный. Та же машина, тот же тест, та же медсестра. Быстрый тест на антиген от BD.

Это экспресс-тест компании BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company).

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После чего возникла переписка в твиттере под первым постом Маска:

Читатель:
-- Какие симптомы?

Маск:
--Симптомы обычной простуды. Ничего необычного.

После этих четырех экспресс тестов, Маск решил получить результаты по более основательным ПЦР тестам

Если это происходит со мной, то это происходит и с другими. Я получу ПЦР-тесты из разных лабораторий. Результаты займут около 24 часов.

Читатель:
-- Доходы от тестов, скорее всего, не являются фиктивными

Маск:
-- Точно.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327125840040169472


Если результаты тестов будут отрицательными и получены через 24 часа, то И.Маск успевает на запуск Crew-1.

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Так, а чего народ без чемоданов? К скафандру чемодан положен!