SpaceX, NASA crew to launch to International Space Station today: all the details here
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX and the US space agency NASA are preparing to launch a new crew to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are expected to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday at 1:45 AM ET (12:15 PM IST).
According to a CNN report, Crew Dragon, the vehicle carrying astronauts, will detach from the rocket after launch and spend about one day in orbit before connecting with the ISS. The capsule is scheduled to dock with the space station at 2:38 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
According to NASA, the Crew-6 launch will carry two NASA astronauts, mission commander Stephen Bowen and pilot Warren Hoburg, along with United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who will serve as mission experts. space station science expedition.
Alneyadi, 41, is the fourth astronaut from an Arab country and the second from the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to travel to space. his compatriot Hazzaa al-Mansoori flew an eight-day trip in 2019.
According to an AFP report, Endeavor pilot Hoburg and Russian mission specialist Fedyayev will also make their first space flights. Fedyaev is the second Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket. NASA astronauts regularly fly to the station in Russian Soyuz capsules.
This is the sixth crewed orbital mission in which astronauts will use the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to orbit the laboratory as part of the agency’s commercial crew program. This dragon’s name is Endeavour.
The team is expected to spend up to six months aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting scientific experiments and maintaining the two-decade-old station. The mission comes as Crew-5 astronauts currently on the ISS have been struggling with a separate transportation problem.
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