NASA SpaceX Crew-6 Prelaunch and Launch Highlights

Featured highlights of the SpaceX Crew-6 prelaunch milestones and launch. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2023. Onboard the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft are NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev for the mission to the International Space Station.

What is said in the film

Derrol Nail (NASA Communications): Crew-6, on the move, inside Astronaut Crew Quarters… Crew-6, walking outside Astronaut Crew Quarters for the second time,. Andrey Fedyaev, Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, and Sultan Alneyadi… The crew departing the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building… A full security escort across NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Launch Pad 39A… The commander and pilot, Stephen and Woody making their way inside Dragon… There go our two mission specialists as they cross the hatch, being very careful. Raja Chari (NASA astronaut): Those five-point harness, just to save wear-and-tear on the suits, a lot of times the ground crew will help with doing that. Nail: As we watch the SpaceX closeout crew close the hatch to the Dragon capsule. Mission Control: Three, two, one, engines full power, and liftoff of Crew-6.

Go Dragon, go Falcon! (Cheers and applause). Gary Jordan (NASA Communications): Now launching on Endeavour’s fourth flight to the International Space Station. Vehicle is pitching downrange. One point seven million pounds of thrust provided by the nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage.

Hearing good call – stage one propulsion is nominal.

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