SpaceX launches another batch of Starlinks and readies a Crew Dragon flight to the space station while Russia launches its Progress supply ship.
, Russia launched a Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station on Tuesday, two-and-a-half days before a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to take off from Florida with four station-bound crew members on board.
The crew of NASA's next flight to the space station strapped in early Tuesday for a dress-rehearsal countdown. Left to right: cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, the third Russian to fly aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon; European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen; mission commander Jasmin Moghbeli; and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
Following the countdown rehearsal and Starlink launch, SpaceX test fired the first stage engines of the Crew-7 Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday to verify its readiness to launch. The test went well and the flight remains on track for liftoff at 3:50 a.m. Friday.The Russian federal space agency Roscosmos then launched the Progress MS-24/85P cargo ship from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:08 p.m. EDT.
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