LAUNCH DAY! Sonic booms possible with Crew-10 launch from Florida coast

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Four astronauts as part of NASA’s Crew-10 mission are set to launch aboard a Dragon spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center.

The launch is set for 7:48 p.m. from launch pad 39A.

Sonic booms could be heard after the launch when SpaceX’s first-stage booster returns and lands on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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After Crew-10 arrives to the International Space Station, they will spend about a week together with Crew-9’s NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov as well as NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck at the space station since June.

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Crew-9 had originally been a crew of four space travelers but was cut to two so that there would be room for Wilmore and Williams, who have been stranded at the space station after issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule. The Starliner had so many problems getting to the space station that NASA ruled it too dangerous to carry anyone and it flew back empty.

Crew-10 will conduct different experiments aboard the space station, including “material flammability tests for future spacecraft designs,” according to NASA.

Weather officials with the U.S. Space Force 45th Weather Squadron says there is more than a 95% chance of favorable conditions for the launch.

News 6 will stream coverage ahead of the Crew-10 mission launch, as well as the launch itself, live at the top of this story when it begins.

If this launch goes off, SpaceX will follow with a Starlink launch hours later from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.