A Space X Falcon 9 rocket with the business’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen at dawn on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39 A as preparations continue for the Crew -4 objective, Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center inFlorida NASA’s Space X Crew -4 objective is the 4th team rotation objective of the Space X Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial CrewProgram Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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The objective will bring NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, to the International Space Station for their prepared science objective. This is the very first spaceflight for Hines and Watkins and the 2nd flight for Lindgren and Cristoforetti.
The Space X Falcon 9 rocket is vertical with the business’s Crew Dragon atop for NASA’s Space X Crew -4 objective at Launch Pad 39 A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 19,2022 Launch is targeted for 5: 26 a.m. EDT from Pad 39 A. The astronauts will carry out clinical research study in locations such as products science, health innovations, and plant science to get ready for human expedition beyond low-Earth orbit. Credit: Space X
Upon their arrival, the Crew -4 astronauts will have a brief overlap with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who flew to the station as part of the company’s Space X Crew -3 objective in November2021 Also on board are Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov who flew to the station on a Soyuz spacecraft on March 18, 2022, Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov and cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov.
The objective will fly a brand-new Crew Dragon, which team members have actually calledFreedom Mission Commander Lindgren tweeted the significance of the name: “The name celebrates a fundamental human right, and the industry and innovation that emanate from the unencumbered human spirit.” The spacecraft’s name likewise remembers Freedom 7, the spacecraft that brought Alan Shepard as the very first American introduced into area on May 5, 1961, aboard NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 3.
