{"id":12442,"date":"2020-05-27T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-on-eve-of-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:05:20","slug":"photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-on-eve-of-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-on-eve-of-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon on eve of launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft were lowered horizontal on pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center the day before launch, allowing teams to address an issue with a chilled water loop near the top of the strongback structure.<\/p>\n

The 215-foot (65-meter) rocket, emblazoned with the U.S. flag and NASA\u2019s \u201cworm\u201d and \u201cmeatball\u201d logos, is set for liftoff Wednesday at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) on the first crewed mission to launch into orbit from U.S. soil since the last space shuttle flight in July 2011.<\/p>\n

Strapped into their seats inside the Crew Dragon capsule, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will rocket into orbit on top of the Falcon 9 launcher.<\/p>\n

These photos were taken Tuesday, the day before the Falcon 9\u2019s scheduled launch. The rocket was raised vertical later Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft were lowered horizontal on pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center the day before launch, allowing teams to address an issue with a chilled water loop near the top of the strongback structure. The 215-foot (65-meter) rocket, emblazoned with the U.S. flag and NASA\u2019s \u201cworm\u201d and \u201cmeatball\u201d […]<\/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":[2125,524,291,235,2126,2127,2034,479],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-behnken","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-demo-2","tag-doug-hurley","tag-expedition-63","tag-falcon-9"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442"}],"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=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}