A brand new batch of astronauts are on the brink of head to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) as a part of the Crew-4 mission. The mission has now handed its readiness evaluate and is on monitor for launch subsequent Saturday, April 23.
The launch will see 4 astronauts taken to the area station on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The crew consists of NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren — whom we interviewed about NASA’s plans for crewed missions to the moon final 12 months — plus NASA colleagues Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, together with European Area Company astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
“Liftoff is scheduled for five:26 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 23. NASA’s Crew-4 mission is the fourth crew rotation flight on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, and Bob Hines will function mission commander and pilot, respectively, and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins and ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, will be a part of as mission specialists,” NASA confirmed in an replace.
The crew has been making ready for this mission with coaching at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California and at NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart to get antiquated with the SpaceX Dragon craft and the capabilities they’ll carry out on board.
Whereas the crew has been preparing, the spacecraft has been ready as properly. It just lately arrived at Kennedy Area Heart, from the place the launch will happen. “SpaceX’s brand-new Dragon spacecraft – named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts – arrived at Kennedy Area Heart’s Launch Advanced 39A at this time, April 16, after making the journey from SpaceX’s processing facility at close by Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in Florida,” NASA wrote. “After Dragon is mated to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch car will roll out to the pad and be raised to the vertical launch place.”
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