After Crew-13 launched from Cape Canaveral, WESH 2 spoke one-on-one with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about Artemis III, NASA’s return to the moon and the future of space exploration.

The crew of four — two NASA astronauts, one from Canada, and a Russian cosmonaut — heads to the International Space Station after liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

SpaceX and NASA are preparing to send the next crew of four to the International Space Station as soon as Thursday morning, weather permitting. The mission, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13, is led by NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, who will become the first agency astronaut to fly twice onboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew members departed from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral at 11:10 am EDT (15:10 UTC) Thursday.

After Crew-13 launched from Cape Canaveral, WESH 2 spoke one-on-one with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about Artemis III, NASA’s return to the moon and the future of space exploration.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, burning bright, broke through grey, dreary skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Oct. 1. The launch of the rocket—capped with the reusable Crew Dragon Grace, which contained two Americans,

SpaceX has both the Crew-13 launch and a Falcon Heavy national security launch slated for Thursday with three rocket boosters coming back for landings that could bring sonic booms to Central Florida.

A launch director might seem like the ultimate engineering job with all its technical know-how. And engineering helped get Leinbach, who started at NASA as a launch pad structural engineer in 1984, to the Firing Room's top seat at Kennedy Space Center.