Updates: NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission launches astronauts from Kennedy Space Center
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Update: Liftoff of Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon! The Crew-6 mission successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday, March 2, with a team of three astronauts and one cosmonaut. The crew is slated to dock with the International Space Station for a six-month science stay at 1:17 a.m. EST Friday.
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Watch live as NASA and SpaceX target 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday, March 2, for the launch of the Crew-6 mission from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with a team of three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will launch in a Crew Dragon capsule from pad 39A for a six-month mission to the International Space Station. This will mark the first time an astronaut from the UAE will fly in Crew Dragon and the second time for a Russian cosmonaut.
If everything goes according to plan, Dragon will arrive at the ISS just over 24 hours after liftoff at 1:17 a.m. EST Friday, March 3.
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