(Picture credit score: NASA/Joel Kowsky)
SpaceX will launch the Crew-6 mission for NASA at 1:45 a.m. EST (0645 GMT) on Monday, Feb. 27 from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Area Middle in Florida.
The mission will likely be SpaceX’s ninth total crewed flight and the fourth for Crew Dragon Endeavour, the spacecraft that can launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carry the mission’s 4 crewmembers to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
The Crew-6 mission consists of NASA astronauts Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi. The mission will mark the primary time the UAE has despatched an astronaut on a protracted period spaceflight.
Learn extra: Meet the SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts launching to the Worldwide Area Station on Feb. 26
On this NASA {photograph}, the crewmembers of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission put together to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Constructing at Kennedy Area Middle in Florida throughout a gown rehearsal for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launch on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
From left: Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan Alneyadi.
