The Falcon 9 launch vehicle was launched with the special Crew Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida, USA. Live streamed on the page NASA.
The launch of the carrier rocket was carried out at 8.34 Moscow time. This is Crew Dragon’s sixth manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under a contract with NASA.
As part of the crew of Crew-6, there are two American astronauts on board – Commander Stephen Bowen and pilot Woody Hoburg, astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi from the United Arab Emirates and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev from Russia.
The spacecraft’s docking with the ISS is scheduled for March 3 at 09:17 Moscow time.
Falcon 9 was originally scheduled to launch at 09:45 on February 27. he was It is cancelled due to a clogged filter responsible for the operation of the ship engine. The US Space Administration noted that SpaceX replaced the filter in the ground igniter fluid supply system. The reboot was scheduled for March 2.