Nasa Sets Coverage For Means'Sec Spacex Crew-Viii Launch, Docking
NASA volition render coverage of the upcoming prelaunch too launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-viii mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.
The launch is targeted for 12:04 a.one thousand. EST, Friday, March 1, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center inwards Florida. The targeted docking fourth dimension is near seven a.m. on Sabbatum, March two.
Crew arrival will be available on Kennedy's streaming channels including YouTube as well as X. Coverage of launch, the postlaunch tidings conference, too docking will live available on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, in addition to the means'sec website. NASA as well will host an sound-entirely post-Flight Readiness Review intelligence teleconference. Learn how to current NASA TV through a diversity of platforms including social media.
The Crew-viii launch volition bear NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, in addition to Jeanette Epps, also as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
As part of the agency'sec Commercial Crew Program, the mission marks the 8th crew rotation mission together with the ninth homo spaceflight mission for NASA to the space station supported by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft since 2020. Endeavour is the refer of this Dragon spacecraft.
NASA's mission coverage is every bit follows (all times Eastern too discipline to modify based on real-fourth dimension operations):
Sunday, Feb. 25:
2 p.1000. – Crew arrival media issue at Kennedy streaming on the middle'sec social accounts alongside the following participants:Jennifer Kunz, associate director, technical, NASA Kennedy
Dana Hutcherson, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin
The consequence is express to inward-someone media only. Follow Commercial Crew too Kennedy Space Center for the latest arrival updates.
6 p.one thousand. (more or less) – Flight Readiness Review media teleconference (no before than ane hr afterwards completion of the Flight Readiness Review) alongside the next participants:Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Steve Stich, director, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
Joel Montalbano, director, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build together with Flight Reliability, SpaceX
Eric van der Wal, Houston function team leader, ESA (European Space Agency)
Takayoshi Nishikawa, manager, JAXA (Nihon Aerospace Exploration Agency) Houston Office
Media may ask questions via ring alone. For the dial-inward number as well as passcode, please contact the Kennedy newsroom no after than 3 p.thousand. Fri, Feb. 23, at: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Wed, February. 28:
nine:xv a.thousand. – NASA Social panel live current outcome at Kennedy amongst the next participants:NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Carla Koch, mission director, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
Kristin Fabre, deputy primary scientist, Human Research Program, NASA Johnson
Members of the world may inquire questions online past posting questions to the YouTube, Facebook, in addition to X livestreams using #AskNASA.
ten:xxx a.thousand. – NASA Administrator briefing from Kennedy alongside the next participants:NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Joel Montalbano, managing director, International Space Station Program
Steve Stich, managing director, Commercial Crew Program
Media may ask questions in person as well as via ring. Limited auditorium space will live available for inward-person participation. For the dial-inward number too passcode, media should contact the Kennedy newsroom no after than ix:xxx a.1000. Midweek, Feb. 28, at ksc-newsroom@mail service.nasa.gov.
12:30 p.m. – One-on-one media interviews at Kennedy amongst various mission field of study matter experts. Sign-upwardly information will be emailed to media accredited to attend this launch inward somebody.
Th, Feb. 29:
viii p.1000. – NASA TV launch coverage begins
Fri, March 1:
12:04 a.thousand. – Launch
Following determination of launch as well as rising coverage, NASA coverage will keep amongst audio alone, alongside full coverage resuming at the starting time of the rendezvous in addition to docking broadcast. The audio link as well as details volition live available nearer to the mission.
NASA Television will resume continuous mission coverage prior to docking in addition to go along through hatch open and the welcome ceremony. For NASA TV downlink data, schedules, as well as links to streaming video, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
ii a.thousand. (just about) – Postlaunch intelligence conference on NASA TVSteve Stich, director, Commercial Crew Program
Joel Montalbano, managing director, International Space Station Program
Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
Media may enquire questions in somebody together with via call up. Limited auditorium space will live available for in-mortal participation. For the dial-inwards number in addition to passcode, delight contact the Kennedy newsroom no afterwards than 12 a.1000. Friday, March i, at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Saturday, March two:
v a.one thousand. – NASA TV arrival coverage begins (or about 2 hours prior to docking)
vii a.one thousand. – Targeted docking to the frontwards-facing port of the station's Harmony module
Hatch opening volition live more or less 1-60 minutes-and-40-5 minutes afterward docking followed past welcome remarks aboard station. All times are estimates as well as could be adjusted based on operations later on launch. Follow the infinite station blog for the virtually upward-to-engagement operations data.
Audio Only Coverage
Audio solely of the tidings conferences as well as launch coverage will live carried on the NASA "V" circuits, which may live accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240 or -7135. On launch solar day, "mission sound," countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary, will be carried on 321-867-7135.
Launch audio as well volition live available on Launch Information Service too Amateur Television System'second VHF radio frequency 146.940 MHz together with KSC Amateur Radio Club'second UHF radio frequency 444.925 MHz, FM style, heard within Brevard County on the Space Coast.
Live Video Coverage Prior to Launch
NASA volition furnish a live video feed of Launch Complex 39A or so 48 hours prior to the planned liftoff of the Crew-viii mission. Pending unlikely technical issues, the feed will be uninterrupted until the prelaunch broadcast begins on NASA TV, close to iv hours prior to launch. Once the feed is alive, notice it here:
http://youtube.com/kscnewsroom.
For NASA'second launch blog as well as more than information virtually the mission, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
SOURCE NASA
The launch is targeted for 12:04 a.one thousand. EST, Friday, March 1, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center inwards Florida. The targeted docking fourth dimension is near seven a.m. on Sabbatum, March two.
Crew arrival will be available on Kennedy's streaming channels including YouTube as well as X. Coverage of launch, the postlaunch tidings conference, too docking will live available on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, in addition to the means'sec website. NASA as well will host an sound-entirely post-Flight Readiness Review intelligence teleconference. Learn how to current NASA TV through a diversity of platforms including social media.
The Crew-viii launch volition bear NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, in addition to Jeanette Epps, also as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
As part of the agency'sec Commercial Crew Program, the mission marks the 8th crew rotation mission together with the ninth homo spaceflight mission for NASA to the space station supported by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft since 2020. Endeavour is the refer of this Dragon spacecraft.
NASA's mission coverage is every bit follows (all times Eastern too discipline to modify based on real-fourth dimension operations):
Sunday, Feb. 25:
2 p.1000. – Crew arrival media issue at Kennedy streaming on the middle'sec social accounts alongside the following participants:Jennifer Kunz, associate director, technical, NASA Kennedy
Dana Hutcherson, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin
The consequence is express to inward-someone media only. Follow Commercial Crew too Kennedy Space Center for the latest arrival updates.
6 p.one thousand. (more or less) – Flight Readiness Review media teleconference (no before than ane hr afterwards completion of the Flight Readiness Review) alongside the next participants:Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Steve Stich, director, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
Joel Montalbano, director, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build together with Flight Reliability, SpaceX
Eric van der Wal, Houston function team leader, ESA (European Space Agency)
Takayoshi Nishikawa, manager, JAXA (Nihon Aerospace Exploration Agency) Houston Office
Media may ask questions via ring alone. For the dial-inward number as well as passcode, please contact the Kennedy newsroom no after than 3 p.thousand. Fri, Feb. 23, at: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Wed, February. 28:
nine:xv a.thousand. – NASA Social panel live current outcome at Kennedy amongst the next participants:NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Carla Koch, mission director, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
Kristin Fabre, deputy primary scientist, Human Research Program, NASA Johnson
Members of the world may inquire questions online past posting questions to the YouTube, Facebook, in addition to X livestreams using #AskNASA.
ten:xxx a.thousand. – NASA Administrator briefing from Kennedy alongside the next participants:NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Joel Montalbano, managing director, International Space Station Program
Steve Stich, managing director, Commercial Crew Program
Media may ask questions in person as well as via ring. Limited auditorium space will live available for inward-person participation. For the dial-inward number too passcode, media should contact the Kennedy newsroom no after than ix:xxx a.1000. Midweek, Feb. 28, at ksc-newsroom@mail service.nasa.gov.
12:30 p.m. – One-on-one media interviews at Kennedy amongst various mission field of study matter experts. Sign-upwardly information will be emailed to media accredited to attend this launch inward somebody.
Th, Feb. 29:
viii p.1000. – NASA TV launch coverage begins
Fri, March 1:
12:04 a.thousand. – Launch
Following determination of launch as well as rising coverage, NASA coverage will keep amongst audio alone, alongside full coverage resuming at the starting time of the rendezvous in addition to docking broadcast. The audio link as well as details volition live available nearer to the mission.
NASA Television will resume continuous mission coverage prior to docking in addition to go along through hatch open and the welcome ceremony. For NASA TV downlink data, schedules, as well as links to streaming video, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
ii a.thousand. (just about) – Postlaunch intelligence conference on NASA TVSteve Stich, director, Commercial Crew Program
Joel Montalbano, managing director, International Space Station Program
Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
Media may enquire questions in somebody together with via call up. Limited auditorium space will live available for in-mortal participation. For the dial-inwards number in addition to passcode, delight contact the Kennedy newsroom no afterwards than 12 a.1000. Friday, March i, at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Saturday, March two:
v a.one thousand. – NASA TV arrival coverage begins (or about 2 hours prior to docking)
vii a.one thousand. – Targeted docking to the frontwards-facing port of the station's Harmony module
Hatch opening volition live more or less 1-60 minutes-and-40-5 minutes afterward docking followed past welcome remarks aboard station. All times are estimates as well as could be adjusted based on operations later on launch. Follow the infinite station blog for the virtually upward-to-engagement operations data.
Audio Only Coverage
Audio solely of the tidings conferences as well as launch coverage will live carried on the NASA "V" circuits, which may live accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240 or -7135. On launch solar day, "mission sound," countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary, will be carried on 321-867-7135.
Launch audio as well volition live available on Launch Information Service too Amateur Television System'second VHF radio frequency 146.940 MHz together with KSC Amateur Radio Club'second UHF radio frequency 444.925 MHz, FM style, heard within Brevard County on the Space Coast.
Live Video Coverage Prior to Launch
NASA volition furnish a live video feed of Launch Complex 39A or so 48 hours prior to the planned liftoff of the Crew-viii mission. Pending unlikely technical issues, the feed will be uninterrupted until the prelaunch broadcast begins on NASA TV, close to iv hours prior to launch. Once the feed is alive, notice it here:
http://youtube.com/kscnewsroom.
For NASA'second launch blog as well as more than information virtually the mission, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
SOURCE NASA
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