SpaceX Crew-1 Dress Rehearsal, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, watches a monitor with the astronauts visible in their Dragon spacecraft..
SpaceX and NASA completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Like they would on launch day, teams were on consul in Mission Control in Hawthorne and Firing Room 4 at the Cape.
The crew began their day in the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at historic Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where they donned their spacesuits, got into their Tesla transport vehicles, and departed for Launch Complex 39A. When they arrived at the pad, they rode up the tower elevator, boarded Crew Dragon by way of the crew access arm, and checked Dragon’s communications systems before the hatch was closed. The simulated go/no-go poll for Falcon 9 propellant load was completed early at T-1 hour with all SpaceX and NASA teams providing go.
Teams are on track for launch of Crew-1 on Sunday at 7:27 p.m. EST.
Pre-launch news conference later today: www.nasa.gov/nasalive
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