The rocket was rolled out to Space Launch Complex 40 on Sunday, September 27, and raised to a vertical position ahead of liftoff scheduled for\u00a0no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT on October 1.<\/p>\n
At the launch pad, rocket and ground systems engineering teams conducted an integrated static fire of the Falcon 9, followed by detailed reviews of the test data.<\/p>\n
Crew-13 will carry NASA<\/a> astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission.<\/p>\n The crew will conduct scientific research aboard the orbiting laboratory aimed at supporting future human exploration beyond low Earth orbit and benefiting life on Earth.<\/p>\n For Delaney, Kutryk and Teteryatnikov, the mission will mark their first spaceflight. Crew-13 will be Watkins\u2019 second spaceflight, making her the first NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice.<\/p>\n Earlier, Qazinform News Agency<\/a> reported that SpaceX launched<\/a> its massive Starship rocket from its Texas site, marking the vehicle’s first operational mission to deploy satellites into Earth’s orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rocket was rolled out to Space Launch Complex 40 on Sunday, September 27, and raised to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-616232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}