It was SpaceX's second crewed launch in less than three weeks.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Crew-4 astronaut mission for NASA on the new Crew Dragon Freedom from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before dawn on April 27, 2022.The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission settle into orbit after a successful launch of the Crew Dragon Freedom from Florida on April 27, 2022.The Crew-4 astronauts walk out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at about 12:30 a.m.
The Crew-4 launch comes on the heels of another astronaut mission flown by SpaceX, Axiom 1 , which launched to the ISS on April 8 and splashed down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, on Monday afternoon . Crew-4's liftoff marks a new and historic cadence for SpaceX, which has now launched two crews from the same pad less than three weeks apart.
Originally scheduled to lift off a week earlier, Crew-4's launch date was pushed back due to Ax-1's delayed departure from the ISS.
NASA Certification Manager for the Commercial Crew Program Carla Koch spoke with Space.com about the checks undergone by Ax-1, highlighting the attention given to the Dragon's parachute deployment systems. A lag in parachute deployment was observed during the return to Earth of several previous SpaceX missions — namely
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