#SPACEX FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCH NASA FULL#

Before becoming an astronaut, he was a communications engineer in the UAE armed forces.

He's flying the first long-duration International Space Station mission for any astronaut from an Arab nation. His flight was organized by Axiom Space, a private company that partners with NASA to offer trips to the International Space Station to non-NASA organizations. Sultan Alneyadi, a mission specialist, is the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates to fly on Dragon.NASA's Warren 'Woody' Hoburg (pilot): From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hoburg is a commercial pilot and was an aeronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he was selected for NASA's astronaut class in 2017.He has three children with his wife, Deborah. He is a retired Navy captain and became the first submarine officer selected for astronaut duty in 2020. NASA's Stephen Bowen (commander): From Cohasset, Massachusetts, Bowen is a veteran of three space shuttle flights and helped construct the International Space Station more than two decades ago.Crew-6's four astronauts are a truly international team: It's an absolute miracle of engineering and I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine,' he said. ET Friday.Īfter reaching orbit, Hoburg had plenty of praise for the hardware: 'As a rookie flyer, that was one heck of a ride. Dragon is slated to dock with the ISS at 1:17 a.m. The Dragon capsule, meanwhile, previously flew three missions: Demo-2 in 2020, Crew-2 in 2021, and Axiom's private Ax-1 mission last year. The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage was brand new and successfully landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship stationed several hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' mission commander Bowen, quoting Shakespeare's 'Henry V,' said just before liftoff. Onboard were NASA's Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. ET, a Falcon 9 rocket vaulted off pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center with NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, the seventh flight under contract between the agency and California-based company. – An international crew of three astronauts and a cosmonaut launched from Kennedy Space Center early Thursday, kicking off a roughly six-month science mission to the International Space Station.Īt 12:34 a.m.

#SPACEX FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCH NASA FULL#

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Later: Atlas 5 - CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test: Boeing gets to test its new Starliner capsule with humans.

July: Falcon 9 - Polaris Dawn: Civilian Astronauts take off to perform the first civilian space walk.

May: Falcon 9 - Axiom Mission 2: Space Tourism grows with a private crew mission to the International Space Station.

June: ULA - Vulcan Centaur: ULA launches the Peregrine lunar lander on Vulcan Centaur's inaugrual flight.

TBD: Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-68: Experience the power of the Delta 4 Heavy.

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