NASA Prepares for SpaceX Commercial Crew Launch to ISS From Kennedy Space Center Aug. 15
By NASA information center // July 6, 2023
NASA & SPACE NEWS
(NASA) – The launch of NASA’s seventh rotational mission of a SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station is set for Tuesday, Aug. 15, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The launch of Dragon, named Endurance, will carry NASA astronaut and mission commander Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and pilot Andreas Mogensen, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov as mission specialists.
This is the first spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second flight for Mogensen and Furukawa.
Following a handover period, crew members from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission are scheduled for return to Earth aboard their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour.
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