Lift off is scheduled for 3:49 a.m. ET on Friday (Aug. 25).
All went well during the roughly seven-hour FRR, keeping Crew-7 on target to fly at the end of this week atop a"At the conclusion of the review, everybody polled 'go,' and we're proceeding towards a launch at 3:49 am. Eastern Time on Friday," Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, said during a post-FRR press conference this afternoon.
If Crew-7 launches on time, it will arrive at the ISS around 2 a.m. EDT on Saturday . You can watch the approach and docking here at Space.com when the time comes. The Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon — a capsule called Endurance, which already has two crewed trips to the ISS under its belt — are in good shape, NASA and SpaceX said during today's press conference. But if a technical issue crops up, or if the Florida weather fails to cooperate on Friday , backup launch opportunities are available on both Saturday and Sunday .
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