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Crew-3 (Falcon 9) 10 November 2021 |
Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center |
| A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA’s Crew-3 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 9:03 p.m. on 10 November 2021. This is the third operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station carrying four astronauts onboard for a long duration mission conducting science and maintenance on the orbiting laboratory. This is the first flight of this Crew Dragon spacecraft that the crew have named Endurance. | |
TIME EXPOSURE |
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Heavy clouds and rain moving onshore obscure the launch of Crew-3 in this time exposure from Vero Beach’s South Beach. |
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| The crew pose with their mission logo. From left is Mission Commander Raja Chari and Pilot Thomas Marshburn who previously flew on STS-127 and Expeditions 34/35 to the ISS. The two Mission Specialists are European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer and Kayla Barron. All are rookies making their first flight into space except for Marshburn. (Photo credit: NASA) | |
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Some of the SpaceX equipment being provided under commercial contract with NASA. (Image credit: NASA) |
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