SpaceX is targeting Thursday, March 21 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 4:55 p.m. ET with a backup launch opportunity available on Friday, March 22 at 4:29 p.m. ET if needed.

A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about 20 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch live.

This is the sixth flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Ax-2, ESA Euclid, Ax-3, and two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9's first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

CRS-30 is the fourth flight for this Dragon spacecraft, which previously flew CRS-22, CRS-24, and CRS-27 to the space station. After an approximate 38-hour flight, Dragon will autonomously dock with space station Saturday, March 23 at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/miss...ssionId=crs-30

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Flight 4 should be less than 2 months away (sometime in May).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Super Heavy booster for Flight 4 moved to the pad at Starbase <a href="https://t.co/A3aYgdPt8V">pic.twitter.com/A3aYgdPt8V</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1775956032021495886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Getting ready for Flight 4 <a href="https://t.co/cylOfDi4rk">https://t.co/cylOfDi4rk</a></p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1776413162444906841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Additional views from today’s Super Heavy static fire <a href="https://t.co/jSmw7UxKF8">pic.twitter.com/jSmw7UxKF8</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1776412789768425751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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The next Boeing Starliner test is coming up tonight finally (2 astronauts on board). Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly.

On NASA TV.

Ha, well, that was timely. Scrubbed due to a stuck valve.

Any of you space nerds ever coming down here for a Starship flight test? IFT 4 should be within a month or so.

Then it should get even more interesting with IFT 5 and beyond. Catching the super heavy booster, a second Mechazilla Orbital Launch Integration Tower, etc.

I can't believe any astronaut with a sense of self-preservation would trust a rocket made by Boeing.

Technically, the capsule is made by Boeing. The rocket is made by ULA, and that's where this particular issue came from.

Boeing has been sending rockets into space for a long time. They're probably one of the most trustworthy big-space operations in the world.

Boeing was also a trusted airplane manufacturer not long ago. Now? Not so much.

I mean sure, but Starliner has been a complete disaster in every way except actually killing people. It was originally supposed to be in operation in 2017, so it's SEVEN YEARS behind schedule. Boeing has lost about $1.5 BILLION on it because NASA finally got tired of essentially subsidizing the company by awarding them cost-plus contracts. It was originally supposed to be a race between Boeing and SpaceX, and so far Starliner has flown 0 operational missions (and this one is still just a test) while SpaceX has flown 8 flights for NASA and another 4 for commercial customers (that's double their original contract - mostly because Boeing shit the bed and NASA needed someone else to step in).

For the sake of having redundancy, I hope Starliner flies and flies well, but implying that Boeing deserves any sort of trust with it because of their decades-old track record completely ignores the debacle that company has been for the past 20 or so years.

Ship 30 (IFT5 vehicle) set for static fire shortly. 🚀

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ship 30&#39;s time to shine (Flight 5 vehicle). Expected Static Fire test later today. Will be commented livestream later, Starbase Live for the meantime:<a href="https://t.co/e3xbqPnwZ5">https://t.co/e3xbqPnwZ5</a> <a href="https://t.co/RvJUEoM7Ny">pic.twitter.com/RvJUEoM7Ny</a></p>&mdash; Chris Bergin - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1787815422235996387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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What the hell does this have to do with anything? Boeing's been launching vehicles and running a massive space operation since before I was alive on planet earth. They've accumulated hundreds of years of combined engineering knowledge (more than Europe and China). To act like they can't launch a manned rocket into space because of budget over-runs is crazy. BTW, elements of Boeing space were involved with the ****ing Apollo missions. Stop reading headlines.

Loads of experience didn't prevent Boeing from committing major **** ups while designing and building airplanes, then trying to minimize and cover up their mistakes after the fact.

I wouldn't trust Boeing to design a child's drone at this point.