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SpaceX flies Crew-13 from Florida and Transporter-18 from California on the same day
SpaceX lofted NASA’s Crew-13 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Florida, at 10:10 a.m. CT Thursday, sending Crew Dragon Grace toward the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov; booster B1101 landed on Landing Zone 40 about eight minutes later, NPR and Launch Library 2 reported. Later Thursday, Falcon 9 lofted Transporter-18 from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 1:32 p.m. CT (11:32 a.m. PDT) with 130 smallsat rideshare payloads; booster B1082, on its 25th flight, landed on Landing Zone 4 about seven and a half minutes later, NASASpaceFlight reported. Payload deployments for Transporter-18 continued about an hour after liftoff and included Google’s Project Suncatcher M1 AI/TPU prototype, Starfish Space’s Otter servicing vehicle, and NASA’s SPRITE CubeSat.
- NPRNASA's Crew-13 launches to the International Space Station
- NASANASA’s SpaceX Crew-13
- NASASpaceFlightStarfish Otter, other payloads launch on Transporter 18
- SpaceXTransporter-18 Mission