{"id":13311,"date":"2019-03-01T21:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-arrive-at-pad-39a-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:38:39","slug":"photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-arrive-at-pad-39a-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-arrive-at-pad-39a-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon arrive at pad 39A for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX rolled the first Crew Dragon spacecraft out to a Florida launch pad Thursday for final preparations ahead of a test flight to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

The commercial crew capsule will ride a 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) Saturday, heading for a docking with the space station early Sunday, assuming an on-time liftoff.<\/p>\n

Rollout began before 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT), when the Falcon 9 emerged on its strongback carrier from SpaceX\u2019s hangar for the quarter-mile journey up the ramp to pad 39A. Around 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT), hydraulics hoisted the rocket vertical.<\/p>\n

Follow our live coverage of the flight in our Mission Status Center.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
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 rolled the first Crew Dragon spacecraft out to a Florida launch pad Thursday for final preparations ahead of a test flight to the International Space Station. The commercial crew capsule will ride a 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) Saturday, […]<\/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":[524,291,235,2657,2704,479,1545,717],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-demo-1","tag-expedition-58","tag-falcon-9","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311"}],"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=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}