Edited By: Bharat Upadhyay
Last Updated: February 27, 2023, 08:46 IST
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are anticipated to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
The workforce is anticipated to spend as much as six months on board the orbiting laboratory, finishing up science experiments and sustaining the two-decade-old station.
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX and the US area company NASA are making ready to launch a contemporary crew to the International Space Station. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are anticipated to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:45 a.m. ET (12:15 pm IST) Monday.
According to a CNN report, the Crew Dragon, the car carrying the astronauts, will detach from the rocket after launch and spend about in the future maneuvering via orbit earlier than linking up with the ISS. The capsule is slated to dock with the area station at 2:38 a.m. ET Tuesday.
As per NASA, the Crew-6 launch will carry two NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Warren Hoburg, together with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who will function mission specialists for an area station science expedition.
Alneyadi, 41, would be the fourth astronaut from an Arab nation and the second from the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to journey to area; his countryman Hazzaa al-Mansoori flew an eight-day mission in 2019.
According to an AFP report, Hoburg, the Endeavour pilot, and Fedyaev, the Russian mission specialist, may also be making their first area flights. Fedyaev is the second Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS aboard a SpaceX rocket. NASA astronauts fly frequently to the station on Russian Soyuz capsules.
This is the sixth crew rotation mission with astronauts utilizing the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the orbiting laboratory as a part of the company’s Commercial Crew Programme. This Dragon is known as Endeavour.
The workforce is anticipated to spend as much as six months on board the orbiting laboratory, finishing up science experiments and sustaining the two-decade-old station. The mission comes because the Crew-5 astronauts at present on the ISS have been grappling with a separate transportation challenge.
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