SpaceX Crew-4: Launch Week Preparations | Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX Crew-4: Launch Week Preparations | Kennedy Space Center

Four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are scheduled to launch at 5:26 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 23, 2022, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom crew ship and dock to the same port vacated by the Ax-1 mission on Sunday at 6 a.m. The quartet commanded by NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, with Pilot Robert Hines and Mission Specialists Jessica Watkins of NASA and ESA’s Samantha Cristoforetti, will live and work aboard the orbiting lab for just over four-and-a-half months. The Crew-4 astronauts will become Expedition 67 flight engineers after they open the hatches and enter the space station.

NASA Hosts Virtual Media Event for the Agency’s SpaceX Crew-4

From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti smile during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 virtual media engagement event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 19, 2022. 

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett | Image Date: April 19, 2022 

SpaceX Crew-4 Dress Rehearsal

From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Robert Hines, and Kjell Lindgren, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Crew-4 mission launch, Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani 

Image Date: April 20, 2022

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