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New Updates And... Some Bad News
You can use NASA TV to watch on 'All Channels' or NASA Live
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)
MAY
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.
The April 20, 2019 link will take you to a twitter page.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
Space.com
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.
Last edited by Anak; 29 Apr 2019 at 19:45.