SpaceX Crew-6 Mission with four cosmonauts will head to ISS next year in February: NASA

National Aeronautics and Space ministration (NASA) stated on Wednesday that SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying sixth commercial crew mission to International Space Station (ISS) with Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will be launched sometime around mid-February.

Along with Fedyaev on board, spacecraft will also include two NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyi.

SpaceX Crew-6 Mission to be launched in mid-Feb

" SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, mated atop a Falcon 9 rocket will carry two NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen, and Pilot Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Al Neyi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who will join as mission specialists. This is first spaceflight for Hoburg, Al Neyi, and Fedyaev. It is fourth mission to space for Bowen," re statement released by NASA on its official website.

" earliest targeted launch date for agency's SpaceX Crew-6 mission is mid-February 2023, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida," NASA ded. Following a handover period on space station, crew members from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will return to Earth aboard ir SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, it ded.

About SpaceX Crew 6

SpaceX Crew-6 is planned to be sixth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and tenth overall crewed orbital flight. According to media reports, mission is scheduled to be launched on February 19, 2023. At least four crew members will be transported to International Space Station (ISS) through Crew-6 mission.

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