Update: The SpaceX launch live stream countdown for the Crew-1 has been initiated and weather conditions are favorable. We're minutes from 'a go for launch.' A free YouTube video is embedded below if you're wondering how to watch the SpaceX launch.
You can watch the SpaceX launch live stream below in a few minutes, which will have four astronauts, including three NASA astronauts, launching into space and headed to the International Space Station.
The SpaceX launch time is 7:27pm EST, according to NASA and SpaceX. That's when the Crew-1 mission literally takes off, headed into orbit and, according to the official NASA schedule, docking with the ISS at a time of 11pm EST. The astronauts will be there for a total of six months.
Aboard the small SpaceX Dragon capsule and with the powerful Falcon 9 rocket at their backs are NASA's Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Japan's Soichi Noguchi. You can watch them right now, as they're suited up and inside the capsule, waiting for that 7:27pm liftoff time.
You can watch the SpaceX YouTube live stream below, and we'll be providing updates as the astronauts hurdle into space.
How to watch the SpaceX live stream video
You should tune in now, but the actual SpaceX launch time is 7:27pm EST tonight. That's Monday morning 12:27am GMT in the UK, and 11:27am AEDT in Australia.
The live stream video is ongoing, with the four astronauts seated in the Dragon capsule now and going through safety checks while on the Kennedy Space Center launchpad.
While this isn't the first manned private space launch NASA has had SpaceX organize, it's a step up from the first mission, back in late May, that had just two NASA astronauts headed to the ISS.
This is another test for SpaceX and the role of a private sector company to launch NASA missions into space more cheaply and efficiently than ever before. Or, as SpaceX founder Elon Musk just retweeted:
Dragon is the only spacecraft currently flying capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the @Space_Station pic.twitter.com/vjjAlyK0HlNovember 15, 2020
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