SpaceX Crew-4: Ready for Launch | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX Crew-4: Ready for Launch | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts, from left, Jessica Watson, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy stand inside the crew access arm at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A during a dry dress rehearsal on April 20, 2022.

Named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will carry the astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Liftoff, powered by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, is targeted for no earlier than 4:15 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Crew-4 will be the first spaceflight for Hines and Watkins and the second flight for Lindgren and Cristoforetti. 

Credit: SpaceX

Image Date: April 20, 2022

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