If the Starhopper's long-awaited first untethered flight later today just isn't enough to satisfy you, SpaceX has an entertaining warm-up act: today's launch of a (used) Falcon 9 lofting a (used) supply Dragon to the Space Station. The booster will return and attempt one of those exceedingly cool propulsive landings at Cape Canaveral.
Here's NASA showing off the Apollo50 logo on the Dragon capsule, but what caught my eye were the two Space Station mission marks indicating that this particular capsule has been there twice before.
https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/1...0076781570
Scheduled for 6:24 PM EDT/3:24 PM PDT, provided that weather holds.
It will be livestreamed here:
https://www.spacex.com/webcast
NASA will have a livestream too. It may or may not be SpaceX's feed and hopefully they will have some video from the Space Station of the capsule arriving.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Here's NASA showing off the Apollo50 logo on the Dragon capsule, but what caught my eye were the two Space Station mission marks indicating that this particular capsule has been there twice before.
https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/1...0076781570
Scheduled for 6:24 PM EDT/3:24 PM PDT, provided that weather holds.
It will be livestreamed here:
https://www.spacex.com/webcast
NASA will have a livestream too. It may or may not be SpaceX's feed and hopefully they will have some video from the Space Station of the capsule arriving.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive