Meet Astronaut Steve Bowen: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Commander
The first submarine officer ever selected to be a NASA astronaut, who flew on three space shuttle missions in less than two and a half years, is the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. Meet Steve Bowen, a Massachusetts native and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and hear him talk about his childhood and a Navy career that led to three construction trips to space (and seven spacewalks!), and his excitement about returning to the space station to take part in the science mission that is paving the way for future exploration beyond low Earth orbit.
NASA Astronaut Stephen Bowen's Official Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/stephen-g-bowen
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 1:45 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The four Crew-6 crewmates—Commander Stephen Bowen, Pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Mission Specialist United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Mission Specialist Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia)—will dock the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, to the forward port on the space station’s Harmony module about 23 hours after liftoff.
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's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 24, 2023
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My wife Beth and I had the honor to have breakfast with Captain Bowen today. He spoke at the USSVI (Submarine Veterans) Texas Roundup (Fredericksburg, TX) on Saturday (5/19/2024). As a former submarine reactor operator and engineering officer, I thoroughly enjoyed sharing sone "engineering stories." Captain Bowen appears genuinely selfless in the pursuit of NASA exploration and science goals. I truly wish him and NASA much success in future endeavors.
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