![]() ![]() This will be his first space flight as well. The fourth member of the crew is Russian cosmonaut and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev, 42, who is also an engineer. UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, 41, is the first person from his country to fly to space and launch from US soil as part of a long-term mission. The pilot is engineer Warren "Woody" Hoburg, 37, an engineer and commercial aviator. He has been in orbit for more than 40 days, with three space shuttle flights and seven spacewalks. The current crew consists of mission commander Stephen Bowen, 59, a former US Navy submarine officer. ![]() The crew will be met by the current seven ISS occupants. SpaceX is a private rocket venture founded by billionaire Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla and social media platform Twitter. The Designated Crew 6 will be the sixth long-term NASA team flown by SpaceX since May 2020, when it sent the first mission. They will perform several experiments on their mission, such as human cell growth in space and controlling combustible materials in microgravity. Two US NASA astronauts, one Russian cosmonaut, and another astronaut from the United Arab Emirates will embark on a six-month mission in the vehicle. Minutes after the launch, the rocket's upper stage delivered the Crew Dragon into preliminary orbit. The reusable lower-stage Falcon booster flew back to Earth and landed safely on a recovery vessel.Īfter the capsule reached the orbit, a SpaceX mission control manager jokingly told the crew on radio, "if you enjoyed your ride, please don't forget to give us five stars."Ĭrew commander Stephen Bowen replied, "we'd like to thank you for the great ride to orbit today." It lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12:34 EST (0534 GMT) and is expected to take around 25 hours to reach the ISS at around 1:15 a.m. The launch vehicle consists of a Falcon 9 rocket, with an automatically operated Crew Dragon capsule running on nine Merlin engines. The issue was fixed by replacing the filter and purging the system. A live telecast showed the 25-story-tall spacecraft ascending from the launch tower out of a cloud of vapor and a fireball.Ī previous attempt 72 hours earlier was postponed due to a clogged filter in the launch system. Elon Musk's SpaceX launched NASA's next long-duration crew for the International Space Station into orbit on Thursday. ![]()
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