In the first of three planned flights on Monday, SpaceX counted down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and a history-making United Arab Emirates astronaut.
In the first of three planned flights on Monday, SpaceX counted down to the deep overnight launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a history-making United Arab Emirates astronaut to the International Space Station.
Alneyadi, Crew 6 commander Stephen Bowen, pilot Warren"Woody" Hoburg and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev planned to strap into their Crew Dragon atop pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after 11 p.m. EST to await liftoff at 1:45 a.m. Monday. The Crew-6 fliers, posing in the launch pad access arm to their Crew Dragon spacecraft during training. Left to right: Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, pilot Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Crew Dragon commander Stephen Bowen.They'll be welcomed aboard by Crew 5 commander Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina, the first Russian to launch aboard a Crew Dragon.
Alneyadi will be the second in a small cadre of UAE astronauts to fly in space. A countryman, Hazzaa Al Mansoori, visited the space station as part of an earlier short-term Soyuz visit, but Alneyadi is the first assigned to a six-month mission as a full-scale station crew member.
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