SpaceX set to launch next International Space Station crew into orbit for NASA – National
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is scheduled to launch the next long-term team of the International Space Station into orbit early Monday morning, with UAE astronauts and Russian cosmonauts joining the two NASA crews. joined.
The SpaceX rocket, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket with an autonomous Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavor, will take off at 1:45 AM EST (0645 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. was set to
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The four-man crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) about 25 hours later on Tuesday morning for a six-month mission in microgravity in an orbital laboratory about 250 miles (420 km) above Earth. let’s start doing ….
The mission, designated Crew 6, is a private rocket venture founded by Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla TSLA.O and social media platform Twitter, to fly American astronauts to Earth in May 2020. get on track.
NASA said the mission’s launch readiness review was completed on Saturday and it was given a “go” to proceed with takeoff as planned.
“All systems and weather are on track for launch,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
The newest ISS crew is led by Mission Commander Stephen Bowen, 59, a former U.S. Navy submarine officer who logged more than 40 days in orbit as a veteran of three space shuttle flights and seven spacewalks. It is
Fellow NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Horberg, 37, is an engineer and commercial aviator designated as a Crew 6 pilot on his first space flight.
It’s also worth noting that Crew 6’s mission includes UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, 41. The astronaut is his second person to make a space flight in his country and the first to be launched from the continental United States as part of his team on a long-term space station. The UAE’s first astronaut went into orbit aboard a Russian spacecraft in 2019.
Rounding out Crew 6 of four is Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fejaev, 41. He, like Arneyadi, is an engineer and spaceflight rookie designated mission his specialist for the team.
Fedyaev is the latest astronaut to fly aboard an American spacecraft under a rideshare deal signed in July by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
The Crew 6 team will be welcomed to the space station by the 7 crew currently on board the ISS. Among them were her three US NASA crew members, including Commander Nicole Auhnapman, the first Native American woman to fly in space, and three Russian and Japanese astronauts. included.
The ISS, about the length of a football field and the largest man-made object in space, is continuously operated by a US- and Russian-led consortium that includes Canada, Japan and 11 European nations.
The outpost began partly as a venture to improve relations between Washington and Moscow following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War rivalry that sparked the first U.S.-Soviet space race in the 1950s and 1960s. It was thought
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Cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos has been put to the test like never before since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, with the United States steadily increasing military aid to the Ukrainian government while taking drastic measures against Moscow. imposes sanctions.
The Crew 6 mission also followed two accidents that occurred when Russian spacecraft were docked in the orbiting laboratory, in which the Russian spacecraft was splashed into the orbiting laboratory and cooled. It appears that the agent leak caused micrometeoroids (tiny particles of cosmic rock) to streak through space and crash into the spacecraft at high speed.
One of the affected Russian vehicles is currently carrying two cosmonauts and one cosmonaut to the space station in September for a six-month mission scheduled to end in March. It was the Soyuz Crew Capsule. An empty replacement Soyuz to bring them home was launched on Friday and arrived at the space station on Saturday.
(Reporting by Joe Skipper of Cape Canaveral and Steve Gorman of Los Angeles; Editing by Will Dunham)
