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” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{“attribute”:”data-cmtooltip”, “format”:”html”}]”>spacex The Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station has ended and crews are moving toward liftoff at 5:26 am EDT on Saturday, April 23 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The date adjustment provides time for mission teams to complete final preprocessing for the Crew-4 mission following the April 8 launch of the Axiom 1 (Ax-1) mission to the space station.
Mission teams continue to monitor operational schedules with ongoing space station activities, including upcoming spacewalks and the return of Ax-1 crew members. Weather forecasting remains a control element to ensure recovery and safe launches for crew missions. The Crew-4 date also offers three consecutive launch opportunities with backups on Sunday, April 24 and Monday, April 25.
The agency’s flight readiness review was held on Friday, April 15, at Kennedy. The review focused on the readiness of SpaceX’s crew transportation system, the International Space Station and its international partners to support flight, as well as flight readiness certification.
The Crew-4 flight will carry NASA astronauts including Jill Lindgren, mission commander, Robert Haynes, pilot, and Jessica Watkins, mission specialist and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who will serve as mission specialist, to the space station for a scientific exploration mission. . The astronauts will fly a new Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Freedom, aboard a flight-tested Falcon 9 rocket.
The Crew 3 astronauts will lift off off the coast of Florida following a brief drop-off with Crew 4 at the space station.
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” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{“attribute”:”data-cmtooltip”, “format”:”html”}]”>On April 16, 2022, SpaceX’s brand-new Dragon spacecraft – named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts – It arrived at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A following making the flight from SpaceX’s processing facility at the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida. After the Dragon docks with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch vehicle will blast off onto the pad and rise to the vertical launch position.
Before returning to Earth in the fall of 2022, the crew will spend several months doing science and maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory.