Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: Ax-1

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Continental breakfast edition

Launch Time: Friday, April 8 11:17 a.m. ET, 15:17 UTC (instantaneous)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nLk_Vqp7nw

Weather Forecast: 90% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Axiom-1%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%208%20April%20Launch.pdf?ver=AV28FZc8t3igWuxezt6QFA%3d%3d
Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Landing Site: Droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas”
Booster: B1062.5 (Prior missions: GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, and one Starlink mission)
Crew Dragon: C207.3 Resilience (Prior missions: Crew-1, Inspiration4)
Crew:
Michael López-Alegría, Commander (prior flights: STS-73, STS-92, STS-113, Soyuz TMA-9 (Expedition 14))
Larry Connor, Pilot
Eytan Stibbe, Mission Specialist
Mark Pathy, Mission Specialist
>https://www.axiomspace.com/ax1
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/

Ax-1 will spend 10 days in space, 8 of which at the ISS.
Docking is planned for MET +20:28:43 at the node 2 zenith port.

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

Stats: 13th SpaceX launch of 2022, 146th F9 launch, 106th first-stage F9 landing, 86th reflown F9 first stage booster. 6th crewed Dragon flight.