The 4 SpaceX Crew-6 members signed up with the 7 Expedition 68 crew members aboard the area station broadening its population to 11. Credit: NASA TELEVISION
NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard the SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, have come to the International Space Station (ISS).
Crew-6 signs up with the Expedition 68 team of NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, along with Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina.
NASA SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts launched aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour on a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 12:34 a.m. EST on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Their SpaceX Dragon, called Endeavour, docked to the ISS at 1:40 a.m. EST while the station was 260 statute miles over the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Somalia. The crew members first opened the hatch between the spaceport station and the pressurized breeding adapter at 3:45 a.m. EST then opened the hatch to Dragon.
By NASA
March 4, 2023