NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-6 Night Launch | Week of March 3, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-6 Night Launch | Week of March 3, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, along with United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) aboard the SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, arrived at the International Space Station on March 3, 2023.

Crew-6 joins the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, as well as Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina.

The crew members first opened the hatch between the space station and the pressurized mating adapter at 3:45 a.m. EST then opened the hatch to Dragon.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

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: 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Release Date: March 3, 2023

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