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April 29, Monday
9:25 a.m. – Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks at the Planetary Defense Conference (All Channels)
10:30 a.m. – SpaceX CRS-17 What’s On Board Briefing (All Channels)
1 p.m. – SpaceX CRS-17 Pre-Launch News Conference (All Channels)
2 p.m. - NASA STEM Presents: The Future of Space, includes downlink from the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Anne McClain and Christina Koch at 2:25 p.m. EDT (All Channels)

April 30, Tuesday
4 a.m. – Coverage of the Launch of the SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon Cargo Craft Mission to the International Space Station; launch is scheduled at 4:22 a.m. ET (All Channels)
5:30 a.m. – SpaceX CRS-17 Post-Launch News Conference (time subject to change) (All Channels)

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May 2, Thursday
5:30 a.m. – Coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon cargo craft at the International Space Station; capture scheduled at 7 a.m. ET (All Channels)
9 a.m. – Coverage of the installation of the SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station (All Channels)

And now the bad news.

Problems for SpaceX and Crew Dragon.

BREAKING: #SpaceX Crew Dragon suffered an anomaly during test fire today, according to 45th Space Wing. Smoke could be seen on the beaches."On April 20, an anomaly occurred at Cape Canaveral AFS during Dragon 2 static test fire. Anomaly was contained and no injuries." pic.twitter.com/If5rdeGRXOApril 20, 2019

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The April 20, 2019 link will take you to a twitter page.

Did SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule EXPLODE?
There's a short unauthorized? video of the capsule explosion.

So far Tuesday's the 30th launch is unaffected as this was on an earlier model of the Crew Dragon capsule. It was just the capsule's abort rockets being tested.

SpaceX has been pushed back one more day, see below - May 1st.

Tuesday, April 30, 1 p.m.: Prelaunch news conference for next SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station.

Wednesday, May 1, 3:30 a.m.: NASA TV coverage of launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the CRS-17 resupply mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted at 3:59 a.m. EDT. Dragon will carry supplies and science experiments on board, as well as NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) science instrument. OCO-3 will measure solar-induced fluorescence and carbon dioxide concentrations around the globe.

Wednesday, May 1, 5:30 a.m.: SpaceX CRS-17 post launch news conference from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Wednesday, May 1, 7 p.m.: Panel discussion at Planetary Defense Conference. NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green will participate in a panel discussion about defending Earth from asteroids with Bill Nye, chief executive officer of The Planetary Society, and other leading experts.

Thursday, May 2, 5:30 a.m.: NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and capture of SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at International Space Station. Capture is at approximately 7 a.m.

Thursday, May 2, 9 a.m.: NASA TV coverage of installation of SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the nadir port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station.

MEDIA ADVISORY M19-030

Editor's Note: Launch date has been updated to no earlier than Friday, May 3. The prelaunch news conference has been postponed. (Updated April 30, 2019)

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I'm not sure if I can keep up with these delays.

Saturday, May 4, 2:30 a.m. EDT: NASA TV coverage of launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft. Liftoff is targeted for 2:48 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On this resupply mission to the International Space Station, Dragon will carry supplies and science experiments, as well as NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) science instrument. OCO-3 will measure solar-induced fluorescence and carbon dioxide concentrations around the globe.

Monday, May 6, 5:30 a.m.: Rendezvous and capture of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station. Capture is scheduled at 7:30 a.m.

Monday, May 6, 9 a.m.: Installation of the SpaceX Dragon at the International Space Station.

NASA Live

I caught it yesterday at T-0:06 it's the first launch I've seen in weeks with holidays and heart attacks and hospital getting in the way lol, it's good to see they are finally getting some good landing footage on the barge.

There's too many video's to list in a post so, if you go here: CRS-17 Mission you can take your pick, I like the one about towin' the barge with booster back to the Cape, watch it swaying.

2nd one down is this video, the towin' is 8th from this one.

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After about a month attached to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon is expected to be unberthed and released. After several hours drifting away from the outpost, it should perform a deorbit burn and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

CRS-17 Dragon unberthing, splashdown (TBD)
Tenative Monday, June 3, 2019 00:00 23:59

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Next up:
Sat., June 22: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch with NASA technology payloads. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will carry nearly two dozen satellites to space for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Among the payloads are NASA technologies including a small satellite to test the performance of non-toxic spacecraft fuel and an advanced atomic clock to improve how spacecraft navigate.

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