Crew-3 Mission | Launch

SpaceX and NASA are targeting Sunday, October 31 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s third long-duration crew mission (Crew-3) to the International Space Station (ISS) from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window opens at 2:21 a.m. EDT, 6:21 UTC, with a backup opportunity available on Wednesday, November 3 at 1:10 a.m. EDT, 5:10 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. During the Crew-3 mission, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer will fly aboard the Dragon spacecraft, marking the fifth human spaceflight mission SpaceX has launched since May 2020. The webcast for the Crew-3 mission will go live about 4 hours before liftoff.