A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is considered at destroy of day on the originate pad at Delivery Advanced 39A as preparations proceed for the Crew-4 mission, Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Situation Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is the fourth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the Worldwide Situation Region as fragment of the company’s Commercial Crew Program. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with Crew Dragon atop, rolled out to the originate pad on April 19, at Kennedy Situation Center in Florida in preparation for NASA’s Crew-4 originate. The rocket is now in a vertical space at Kennedy’s Delivery Pad 39A and underwent a successful dry gown rehearsal within the early morning hours of April 20 with the originate crew and crewmembers.
The mission will elevate NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Situation Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, to the Worldwide Situation Region for their deliberate science mission. Right here’s the first spaceflight for Hines and Watkins and the second flight for Lindgren and Cristoforetti.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is vertical with the company’s Crew Dragon atop for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission at Delivery Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Situation Center in Florida on April 19, 2022. Delivery is targeted for five: 26 a.m. EDT from Pad 39A. The astronauts will behavior scientific examine in areas such as materials science, health technologies, and plant science to dwelling up for human exploration previous low-Earth orbit. Credit: SpaceX
Upon their arrival, the Crew-4 astronauts will occupy a transient overlap with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Situation Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who flew to the placement as fragment of the company’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission in November 2021. Also on board are Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov who flew to the placement on a Soyuz spacecraft on March 18, 2022, Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov and cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov.
The mission will fly a brand new Crew Dragon, which crew members occupy named Freedom. Mission Commander Lindgren tweeted the significance of the title: “The title celebrates a most foremost human upright, and the trade and innovation that emanate from the unencumbered human spirit.” The spacecraft’s title also remembers Freedom 7, the spacecraft that carried Alan Shepard because the first American launched into condominium on Would perchance perhaps well 5, 1961, aboard NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 3.