NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6: Dragon "Endeavour" Arrival | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6: Dragon "Endeavour" Arrival | International Space Station

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) docked to the zenith port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station March 3, 2023, following a launch the day before on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA and SpaceX flight controllers worked in tandem. Following docking, the quartet opened the hatch and floated onboard the orbital outpost before providing welcoming remarks as their mission aboard the space station began.

The four crew members will conduct a long-duration science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

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.

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

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Release Date: March 3, 2023

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