NASA and SpaceX count down to Halloween launch

(26 Oct 2021) SpaceX Crew-3 arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday.
Liftoff is currently set for early Sunday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
The crew includes NASA astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander, Tom Marshburn, pilot, and Kayla Barron, mission specialist, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
They will launch on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This will be SpaceX's fourth launch of NASA astronauts and its fifth passenger flight overall.
NASA turned to SpaceX and Boeing to transport crews to and from the space station, following the retirement of the shuttle fleet in 2011.
U.S. astronauts hitched rides on Russian rockets until SpaceX took over the job last year.
Boeing has yet to launch anyone. A repeat test flight of its Starliner capsule, without a crew, is off until next year because of valve trouble.
SpaceX is resolving toilet spills in its capsules before it launches another crew for NASA.

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