NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Tesla Vehicles | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Tesla Vehicles | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts greet their family members after walking out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 26, 2023

In these views outside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 26, 2023, are two Tesla vehicles that will transport NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts to Launch Complex 39A for launch to the International Space Station. 

Crew-6 astronauts are NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander; NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot; Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates astronaut and mission specialist; and Andrei Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut (Russia) and mission specialist. 

Launch is now targeted for no earlier than Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 12:34am EST (0534 UTC).

Crew-6 is the sixth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the seventh flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft 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: NASA/Brandon Garner

Image Date: Feb. 26, 2023

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