SpaceX Crew-1 Launch: How to watch NASA’s mission to the ISS live on Saturday

This is no longer a test. SpaceX is trying to get astronauts on the International Space Station to transfer a normal part of NASA’s operations with the Crew mission 1 – his first crew rotation flight – this Saturday, November 14th.

SpaceX is revolutionary The Demo-2 mission delivered two NASA astronauts safely to the ISS in May. It was both heartbreaking and exciting when real humans tested Crew Dragon for the first time. Crew-1 will follow in the footsteps of that successful mission with a launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Crew-1 will transport NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, plus Japanese space agency JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi, to the station for a six-month stay. The crew called the spacecraft “Resilience”.

NASA will stream the launch starting at 12:30 PM PT on Saturday and provide ongoing coverage of the mission, including docking, hatch opening, and welcome ceremony. Takeoff is scheduled for 4:49 PM PT. Docking is scheduled for 1:20 am PT on Sunday.

The launch had been rejected from an earlier date due to a technical problem with some Falcon 9 rocket engines during a previous launch attempt for a US Space Force GPS satellite mission.

NASA announced the Crew Dragon as “the first new crew spacecraft to be certified by NASA for regular flights with astronauts from the space shuttle nearly 40 years ago” in a statement on Tuesday.

As of Wednesday, the U.S. Air Force’s 45th Meteorological Squadron was predicting a 60% chance of favorable weather conditions for Saturday. SpaceX tweeted some photos shows Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 upright on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX and Boeing are NASA partners in the agency Commercial crew program, an effort to bring astronaut launches back to the ISS on US soil after years of reliance on Russian spacecraft. Crew-1 is a pivotal moment in this process.

For more information on Crew-1, here’s everything you need to know.