NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is ‘Go’ for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) following the completion of a launch readiness review, weather briefing, and mission management meeting today (February 28). Launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A from
to review an unusual data signature related to confirming a proper bleed in of pad supplied fluid known as triethylaluminum triethylboron . TEA-TEB is an ignition fluid used to start the Falcon 9’s nine first stage kerosene/liquid oxygen Merlin engines. The bleed-in process ensures there is an adequate supply of this fluid at each engine to mix with liquid oxygen to start the engines.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts walk out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 26, 2023. In front, from left are NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot; and NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander. Behind them, from left are Andrei Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist; and Sultan Alneyadi, UAE astronaut and mission specialist.
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