The launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, was captured on camera by people in Maine.A number of photos show the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft in the skies over Maine about 10 minutes after liftoff, which happened at 5:15 a.m. Friday.The mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is being led by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a native of Caribou, Maine. Joining Meir on the crew are NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.Crew-12 will replace four crew members who are cutting their mission short due to a medical issue. The ISS has been operating with three people on board, well below the seven-person staff the space agency desires, since mid-January.Meir and her crew will conduct research, technology demonstrations and maintenance on board the laboratory. The research includes studies on pneumonia treatment, on-demand intravenous fluid generation, automated plant monitoring, nitrogen-fixing microbe interactions for space food production and blood flow effects during spaceflight.According to NASA, the mission will last eight months and the crew will be running experiments that will inform future missions to the moon and Mars.Crew-12 is expected to reach the ISS at 3:15 p.m. Saturday.Look at some of the photos that were shared with Maine’s Total Coverage.
PORTLAND, Maine —
The launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, was captured on camera by people in Maine.
A number of photos show the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft in the skies over Maine about 10 minutes after liftoff, which happened at 5:15 a.m. Friday.
The mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is being led by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a native of Caribou, Maine. Joining Meir on the crew are NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Crew-12 will replace four crew members who are cutting their mission short due to a medical issue. The ISS has been operating with three people on board, well below the seven-person staff the space agency desires, since mid-January.
Meir and her crew will conduct research, technology demonstrations and maintenance on board the laboratory. The research includes studies on pneumonia treatment, on-demand intravenous fluid generation, automated plant monitoring, nitrogen-fixing microbe interactions for space food production and blood flow effects during spaceflight.
According to NASA, the mission will last eight months and the crew will be running experiments that will inform future missions to the moon and Mars.
Crew-12 is expected to reach the ISS at 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
Look at some of the photos that were shared with Maine’s Total Coverage.