If Mother Nature cooperates, Crew-5 will be launched next week.
The flight readiness review for Crew-5 took more than nine hours to complete. No major technical issues were identified during the FRR, so the Crew-5 teams are working toward a launch from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. There was an event on October 3.
The manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program thought the review was thorough. We are on schedule for the launch on October 3.
There are amazing launch photos of the Crew 4 mission.
The plan is contingent on Hurricane Ian having a small impact on the state of Florida.
Ian's winds have already begun lashing the Florida Keys. Current models predict that the storm will hit Florida's Gulf Coast particularly hard over the next few days, but KSC could also be in danger. NASA is rolling its huge Artemis 1 moon rocket off of Pad 39B tonight as a protective measure to get the valuable hardware safely inside the vehicle assembly building.
The Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station is safe, despite the fact that the Dragon capsule hasn't yet arrived at Pad 39A. Bill Gerstenmaier, vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, said during today's briefing that if the weather cooperates, the Crew-5 stack will roll out on September 29th.
The threat of Hurricane Ian is keeping the four astronauts away from the airport. It will be the first time that a cosmonaut has flown to the International Space Station.
3, backup opportunities will be available on Oct. 4 and Oct. The game on October 6 is out of order. The crew will spend about five months in the space lab before returning to earth.
The teams identified two small issues that need to be looked into further. One concerns bonds on a portion of the Dragon's perimeter, and the other is a possible non-standard weld in the Falcon 9's propulsion system.
The issues are expected to be closed out in the next couple of days.
The Crew-5 Falcon 9, which will be flying for the first time, may not be affected by the weld concern. It's1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556
"We've flown it in some other cases on other rockets and it's performed well, but that doesn't mean it's good enough for crew," he said.
It looks like it's okay after we tested it. The data will be reviewed by NASA tomorrow. They will double check our work and take a look at it. This is a precautionary measure that we're going to take to make sure that we're flying the best equipment we can.
The Crew-5 Falcon 9 first stage was damaged when it was transported from Los Angeles to Texas and the booster was not lowered correctly. The planned launch of Crew-5 was delayed because of repair work.
It was fortunate that the event happened on the way to Texas. We were able to do all this work in Texas before we did the static fire. The rocket went through its normal testing to make sure it was ready to go.
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