{"id":11057,"date":"2023-02-23T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-roll-out-to-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:38:26","slug":"photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-roll-out-to-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-roll-out-to-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon roll out to pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8M1hoJ0z8s\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX transported a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to pad 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 22, for final preparations to carry a four-man crew to the International Space Station on NASA\u2019s Crew-6 mission.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the quarter-mile trip from SpaceX\u2019s hangar, the Falcon 9 was raised vertical on pad 39A using hydraulic pistons early Thursday, Feb. 23, in preparation for a static fire test Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 215-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket is powered by a brand new first stage booster, numbered B1078 in SpaceX\u2019s inventory. The Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is going for its fourth flight to space after debuting on the Demo-2 mission in 2020, SpaceX\u2019s first human spaceflight mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9&nbsp;is set to take off Monday, Feb. 27, at 1:45 a.m. EST (0645 GMT) with NASA commander Steve Bowen, pilot Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Bowen is a veteran of three space shuttle missions, while the other crew members are spaceflight rookies.<\/p>\n<p>The Crew-6 mission will be SpaceX\u2019s sixth operational crew rotation flight to the space station, and SpaceX\u2019s ninth human spaceflight mission overall, including the Demo-2 test flight in 2020 with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, and two fully commercial astronaut missions.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for comprehensive coverage of Crew-6 flight to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Additional photos of the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s rollout to pad 39A are posted below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60880\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60880\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222f9rollout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222f9rollout.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222f9rollout-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222f9rollout-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222f9rollout-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcon 9 rocket with SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Endeavour crew capsule rolled out to pad 39A Wednesday night at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60909\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60909\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout1-678x484.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout1-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60910\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60910\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout2-678x401.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9rollout2-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60911\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60911\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9pad39a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9pad39a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9pad39a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9pad39a-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223f9pad39a-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60912\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60912\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223dragon39a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223dragon39a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223dragon39a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223dragon39a-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230223dragon39a-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff SpaceX transported a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to pad 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 22, for final preparations to carry a four-man crew to the International Space Station on NASA\u2019s Crew-6 mission. After completing the quarter-mile trip from SpaceX\u2019s hangar, the Falcon 9 was raised vertical on pad 39A using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}