NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts: European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Crew-4 mission specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert “Bob” Hines; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren. 

Current Crew-4 Spring 2022 launch date: April 19, 2022

Samantha is the third European astronaut to launch on SpaceX, after Thomas Pesquet in early 2021 and current ESA astronaut-in-space Matthias Maurer in late 2021.

Samantha Cristoforetti Official ESA Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Samantha_Cristoforetti

Jessica Watkins Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jessica-watkins/biography

Robert “Bob” Hines Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/bob-hines/biography

Kjell Lindgren Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/kjell-n-lindgren/biography

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commanders: 

Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos)/Thomas Marshburn (NASA)

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers Sergey Korsakov and Denis Matveev

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti (Italian Space Agency)

NASA (U.S.) Flight Engineers: Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, Robert “Bob” Hines

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: March 25, 2022

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