KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Amid a worsening pandemic, as many as half a million people are expected to swarm the Space Coast this weekend for a chance to witness SpaceX's next crewed mission, only the second time in almost a decade that astronauts will have launched from American soil.
The Crew-1 launch of America's Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — who for weeks have been quarantining with their families as they complete training — is scheduled for Sunday at 7:27 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center's 39A launchpad. They'll take off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
