Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 16th batch of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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NASA officials hope to fly Russian cosmonaut on Crew Dragon next year
NASA has submitted a draft agreement for government approval that would allow Russian cosmonauts to begin flying to the International Space Station on U.S. crew capsules next year in a no-funds exchanged arrangement with Russia’s space agency. In return, Russia will continue launching U.S. and international astronauts on Soyuz missions.
