Four of SpaceX’s Crew-4 spacecraft were released on the International Space Station on April 23.
SpaceX and NASA chose that day to “complete the initial work of the launch,” team officials said in a statement on Tuesday (April 12). NASA announced last week that April 23 was a return option, after the mission was delayed by a day from April 20 to April 21.
“Crew-4 Day offers three start times with backups on Sunday, April 24, and Monday, April 25,” NASA added in the update.
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NASA said the new era was added after the April 8 launch of the Ax-1 spacecraft mission to the International Space Station, which was taken by SpaceX from the same spacecraft that Crew-4 will use- 39A, and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
NASA officials have previously released the logistics needed to prepare the launch pad for the re -launch of Falcon 9 in a very short time. (Like Ax-1, Crew-4 will mount SpaceX’s rocket workhorse.)
KSC is tired these days about preparation. Across the street from Pad 39A, Pad 39B hosts NASA’s “blue cloth training” tour of NASA’s moon missionary Artemis 1.
The test was changed several times, and was later reduced, due to technical problems. Procedures for the release of Ax-1 were canceled and then resumed. The biggest work in the experiment, which includes upgrading the base base of Artemis 1’s Space Launch System rocket and working on the training numbers, is expected to take place on Friday (April 14). .
NASA plans to send Artemis 1 on a lunar orbit this summer in preparation for the rest of the lunar program, which includes a lunar orbit for Artemis 2 in 2024 and a missionary landing for Artemis 3 in 2025 or. 2026.
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