Astro-Calendar: March / 1st SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch March 2

Artist's rendering of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will be launched for the first time, without a crew, on Saturday, March 2, scheduled for 2:49 a.m. EST / 7:49 UTC from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Although weather looks good for a March 2 launch, the back-up launch date is March 5.
More information: Link >>> https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-test-flight-weather-forecast.html
(Image Sources: Wikipedia.org, By NASA/SpaceX - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/42840169205/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71616976)

Astronomical Calendar for 2019 March ---
Link >>> http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/astrocalendar/2019.html#mar

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"Astro-Calendar: Feb. / Full Moon: Largest So-Called 'Super-Moon' of 2019." 2019 Feb. 1.

Link >>> http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2019/02/astro-calendar-feb-largest-so-called.html

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