NASA Schedules CRS-25 Launch and November Skywatching Guide

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in November. Liftoff is targeted for Sunday, November twenty-ninth, at 10:49 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. U.S. media accreditation for the mission closes on Thursday, November twelfth. The cargo ship will stay at the space station until May 2027. Aside from food and equipment, the capsule carries cancer experiments and muscle loss tests. Meanwhile, the night sky offers its own show this month. The Southern Taurids peak around November fifth, followed by the Northern Taurids around November twelfth. Mars and Jupiter will appear 1.2 degrees apart on the mornings of November fifteenth and sixteenth. The Leonids peak on November seventeenth and eighteenth with up to fifteen meteors per hour. Voyager 1 also hits a light-day distance milestone this month. A full supermoon caps the schedule on November twenty-fourth as the first of three consecutive supermoons.