The crew of four will replace the Crew-5 mission.
SpaceX launched a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Thursday, marking the company’s sixth operational mission for NASA's Commercial Crew program, after a technical issue meant an earlier launch was scrubbed.... [+]SpaceX’s Falcon rocket launched the four astronauts onboard its reusable Dragon 2 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center at around 12:30 a.m. E.T.
The Crew-6 mission carried two NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev and Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi. Al-Neyadi is only the second person from the UAE to take part in a space mission and he is also the first Arab astronaut set for an extended stay onboard the ISS.The four astronauts will take over from the members of the Crew-5 mission who are currently onboard the ISS and are set to fly back to Earth later this month.
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