NASA set to launch SpaceX Crew-2 from International Space Station on Apr 22
US space agency NASA is set to launch SpaceX Crew Dragon
second flight to the International
Space Station on April 22, it said.
The Crew-2 with four astronauts on board, will lift-off at 6:11
a.m. EDT on April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
The Crew-2 flight will carry NASA astronauts Shane
Kimbrough and Megan McArthur -- whoa-will serve as the mission's spacecraft
commander and pilot, respectively -- along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency) astronauta-Akihikoa-Hoshidea-and ESA (European Space
Agency) astronaut Thomasa-Pesquet, whoa-will serve as mission specialists to
the space station, the space agency said in a statement.
The mission is the second of the six certified, crew missions
NASA, and SpaceX will
fly as a part of the agency's Commercial Crew Programme. Crew-1 successfully
docked into the ISS in November, last year.
The Crew-2 astronauts will remain aboard the space station for
approximately six months as expedition crew members, along with three crewmates
who will launch via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
The increase of the full space station crew complement to seven
members -- over the previous six - will allow NASA to effectively
double the amount of science that can be conducted in space, NASA said.
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