SpaceX Crew-4 Dragon Rollout | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

 SpaceX Crew-4 Dragon Rollout | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon—named Freedom by the Crew-4 astronauts—atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, leaves the SpaceX integration hangar adjacent to NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A for rollout to the launch pad on April 19, 2022. 

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who arrived at Kennedy one day ago, will fly to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Liftoff is targeted for Saturday, April 23, at 5:26 a.m. EDT. 

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is the fourth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. 

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Image Date: April 19, 2022

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