NASA's SpaceX Crew-6: Sultan Alneyadi (UAE) & Andrei Fedyaev (Russia)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6: Sultan Alneyadi (UAE) & Andrei Fedyaev (Russia)

NASA SpaceX Crew-6 astronaut and mission specialist Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates, stands inside the crew access arm leading to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour

NASA SpaceX Crew-6 astronaut and mission specialist Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates, stands inside the crew access arm leading to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour

At right, Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and mission specialist, checks his spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

 Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev (Russia) is photographed in his SpaceX spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

Seated from left are Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates astronaut and mission specialist; and Andrei Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist

Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronaut Warren “Woody" Hoburg, second from left, NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, second from right, and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

These are pictures of Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut and mission specialist and of Andrei Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut (Russia) and mission specialist. UAE astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center will make history by becoming the first astronaut from the Arab world to spend six months on the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA's Crew-6 astronauts will launch to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA and SpaceX teams are now targeting no earlier than Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 12:34am EST (0534 UTC) for the next launch attempt of the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station.

Crew-6 is the sixth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the seventh flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Obtain updates about the Crew-6 mission here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-6/

You can watch the launch live on NASA TV: 

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

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.

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Dates: Feb. 23, 2023

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