NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Final Launch Operations Rehearsal | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Final Launch Operations Rehearsal | Kennedy Space Center

A vehicle carrying two members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew 5 mission passes by the Vehicle Assembly Building 

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann is seen inside the crew transportation vehicle

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada, left, and Nicole Mann, second from left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, second from right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, left, NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, second from left, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, second from right, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, wearing SpaceX spacesuits

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, center, is seen with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, left, and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada, left, and Nicole Mann, second from left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, second from right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, right

Completion of a Final Launch Operations Rehearsal at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and at Launch Complex 39A for the Crew 5 launch, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth 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. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina are scheduled to launch no earlier than 12:00 p.m. EDT on Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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.

Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Image Date: October 2, 2022

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