The rescheduled launch of a four-man crew kicks off a 24-hour rendezvous with the space station.
, a four-man space station crew, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Arab assigned to a long-duration spaceflight, braced for a second launch try early Thursday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
But if all goes well, the Crew Dragon will slip into orbit nine minutes after liftoff. From there, Bowen and Hoburg plan to monitor an automated 24-hour rendezvous, approaching the station from behind and below before moving in for docking at the forward Harmony module's space-facing port at 1:17 a.m. Friday.
Bowen and company will be welcomed aboard the space station by Crew-5 commander Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina, the first Russian to launch aboard a Crew Dragon. But their Soyuz MS-22 ferry ship was crippled on Dec. 14 when a presumed micrometeoroid ruptured a coolant line. They'll now ride aback to Earth. But to get the crew rotation schedule back on track, the trio will have to spend an additional six months in space, coming home this fall after a full year in orbit.
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