NASA all systems go for manned launch to ISS Monday morning

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NASA was fixed a "Go" for nan motorboat of a four-man unit to nan International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida during nan early greeting hours connected Monday.

In a blog connected nan abstraction agency’s website, NASA said nan Launch Readiness Review for SpaceX Crew-6 was bully to spell for a liftoff targeted for 1:45 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A astatine Kennedy Space Center.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule connected motorboat Pad 39A astatine NASA's Kennedy Space Center connected November 09, 2021 successful Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule connected motorboat Pad 39A astatine NASA's Kennedy Space Center connected November 09, 2021 successful Cape Canaveral, Florida.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The four-man crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, will walk astir 25 hours successful nan SpaceX Dragon capsule arsenic it catches up to nan ISS.

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According to NASA, nan unit is expected to dock pinch nan abstraction position astatine 2:38 a.m. connected Tuesday.

Once there, each 4 unit members will stay successful nan microgravity laboratory for astir six months, wherever they will behaviour subject experiments and maintenance.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon capsule lifts disconnected from Pad 39A astatine nan Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 for a ngo to nan International Space Station.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon capsule lifts disconnected from Pad 39A astatine nan Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 for a ngo to nan International Space Station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Coverage of nan motorboat will statesman astatine 10:15 p.m. connected Sunday, which tin beryllium recovered connected NASA TV aliases NASA.gov.

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Crew-6 is nan sixth unit rotation utilizing SpaceX’s quality space proscription system, arsenic good arsenic nan program's seventh formation pinch astronauts.

The unit will committee nan Dragon Endeavour, which was antecedently utilized for Demo-2, Crew-2, and Axiom Mission 1, NASA said connected its website.

Once nan rocket lifts off, it will scope an orbital velocity of 17,500 mph conscionable earlier separation of nan capsule and booster.

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The Dragon capsule will commencement retired attached to nan Falcon 9 booster, which is fueled pinch liquid oxygen and rocket people kerosene, and powered by 9 SpaceX Merlin engines.

Greg Wehner is simply a breaking news newsman for Fox News Digital.