{"id":12095,"date":"2020-11-21T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-four-astronauts-launch-aboard-spacex-falcon-9-rocket\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:22:20","slug":"photos-four-astronauts-launch-aboard-spacex-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-four-astronauts-launch-aboard-spacex-falcon-9-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Four astronauts launch aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

These images show the liftoff of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft on top of a 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts on an expedition to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 7:27:17 p.m. EST on Nov. 15 (0027:17 GMT on Nov. 16) with NASA commander Mike Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 launcher streaked into a clear evening sky, taking aim on the International Space Station as it flew northeast from Florida\u2019s Space Coast powered by nine Merlin 1D engines generating 1.7 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust.<\/p>\n

The mission, known as Crew-1, marked the first operational crew rotation flight to the space station with SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n

After a 27-and-a-half hour pursuit, the Crew Dragon Resilience spaceship autonomously docked with the space station at 11:01 p.m. EST on Nov. 16 (0401 GMT on Nov. 17). A few hours later, Hopkins and his crewmates floated into the space station to join three crew members already living aboard the orbiting research lab.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for more details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Mike Hopkins walk across the crew access arm leading to the Crew Dragon capsule at pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA astronaut Victor Glover walk across the crew access arm leading to the Crew Dragon capsule at pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Crew-1 astronauts strapped into their seats before launch. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NASA astronaut Victor Glover and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi are seen on the fixed service structure at pad 39A before boarding the Crew Dragon. Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft rockets off pad 39A atop a 215-foot-tall Falcon 9 launcher. Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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These images show the liftoff of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft on top of a 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts on an expedition to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 7:27:17 p.m. EST on […]<\/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":[1284,524,291,235,1156,1747,1748,479],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1061","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-resilience","tag-crew-1","tag-expedition-64","tag-falcon-9"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095"}],"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=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}