A spaceship Dragonnamed Endeavor, van Space X left yesterday, take four NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will conduct a mission for six months.
“Mission lifted off at 12:34 a.m. ET today and docks at 1:17 a.m. Friday,” the ISS wrote on Twitter.
The @SpaceX #Crew6 The mission lifted off at 12:34 a.m. ET today and is on its way to a station docking at 1:17 a.m. Friday. Hear real-time audio between the crew and mission controllers as they orbit the Earth… https://t.co/uGH9LKqwPz pic.twitter.com/1RL0sAYWBA
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) March 2, 2023
The crew called crew 6consists of Americans Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburgtogether with astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sultan Alneyadi and the Russian cosmonaut from Roscosmos Andrey Fedyaev.
The Dragon lifted off from the Kennedy Center in Florida and will be tracked from the mission control center in Hawthorne, California.
Crew-6 is about to launch pic.twitter.com/GEm1MZJIAt
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 2, 2023
When they arrive at the International Space Station, the astronauts will live with other crew members already there. Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, from NASA; Koichi Wakata, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina will work alongside Crew 6 for what little time they have left before returning to Earth.
The experiments they are going to develop have to do with microgravity, research of microbial samples and tissue chips.
Missile refueling has begun and all systems remain GO for launch.
NASAs @SpaceX #Crew6 mission will launch at 12:34 PM ET (0534 UTC). The countdown continues. https://t.co/1fsIeMlQyY
—NASA (@NASA) March 2, 2023
Follow the journey of Dragon and crew
SpaceX enabled a link to track the journey from the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station in real time. Click here to enter.
Flight profile of Dragon and Crew-6 en route to the @space station pic.twitter.com/WxUCPUlIbn
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 2, 2023
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