33+ Spacex Rocket Launch Today Time Images. The next launch is slated for today at 3:22 pm et. Astronauts have launched to orbit from the united states for the first time in nearly a decade, heralding an exciting new era of human spaceflight.
The historic mission was the first crewed spaceflight to take off from us soil in nearly a decade. A spacex falcon 9 rocket lifts off from nasa's kennedy space center in florida carrying nasa this flight of spacex's crew dragon is only the fifth time in history that u.s. Spacex rocket launches astronauts to iss.
Eastern time today, saturday, may 30, spacex's crew dragon spacecraft lifted off on a falcon 9 rocket from the historic launch complex.
The falcon 9 rocket's second stage separates from the spacex crew dragon capsule credit: In ordinary times, the beaches and roads along florida's space coast would be packed with hundreds of thousands of spectators, eager to witness the first. Astronauts have piloted thirty years of shuttle launches turned rocket thunder into a common refrain over cape canaveral. Spacex designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.