Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: CRS-24

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Launch Time: Monday December 20th 5:06 a.m. EST / 10:06 UTC (instantaneous window)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEv6HLHYhWo

Weather Forecast: 30% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20NASA%20CRS-24%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%2021%20Dec%20Launch.pdf?ver=_SeXjZh6wfl2FqPnmzCwvw%3d%3d
Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Landing Site: Droneship “Just Read the Instructions”
Booster: B1069.1 (Prior missions: none)
Dragon: C209.2 (Prior missions: CRS-22)
Payload: Dragon 2 capsule. Destination is the ISS. 2,929 kg of cargo.
>https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex.html
>https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-24-research-highlights/
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/

Dragon will dock to the forward-facing port on Harmony (IDA-2), for about a month.


Launch Viewing Guide for Florida:
>http://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html
>https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/viewing.html

Stats: 31st SpaceX launch of 2021, 133rd F9 launch, 93rd landing, 75th reflown booster.