Inspiration4
Earlier this morning, a static fire was conducted for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that will send the four Inspiration4 astronauts to low-Earth orbit this coming Wednesday.
The nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 successfully ignited for a few seconds at 2:30 AM, Eastern Daylight Time (11:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time yesterday). This milestone came only a few hours after Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman and his three crew members conducted a launch dress rehearsal inside their Crew Dragon Resilience capsule at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex (LC)-39A in Florida.
With only two days remaining till the start of their three-day mission, the Inspiration 4 astronauts spent today conducting multiple flyovers of their launch vehicle at LC-39A—courtesy of their support team piloting four L-39 jets that each astronaut rode shotgun in.
As of right now, liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral is set for 8:02 PM, EDT (5:02 PM, PDT)...which will be at the start of a five-hour launch window that evening. The weather forecast for the night of September 15 is currently 80% GO. Stay tuned!
Inspiration4
F9/I4: SpaceX hot-fired the Inspiration4 Falcon 9 rocket at 2:30am EDT (0630 UTC) to clear the way for launch Wednesday on the first all-civilian, non-government flight to orbit; test appeared normal, but as usual will now await an update from SpaceX on results pic.twitter.com/e4KqjoObBm
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) September 13, 2021
A formation of jets with the Inspiration4 crew members aboard flew by Launch Complex 39A this afternoon.
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) September 13, 2021
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule stand ready to launch the Inspiration4 crew into orbit Wednesday night.
Mission coverage: https://t.co/9USg9DDd7K pic.twitter.com/qUQS41eIZc
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