NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Launch | Kennedy Space Center

In front, from left are NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, pilot; and NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander. Behind them, from left are Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut (Russia) and mission specialist; and Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates astronaut and mission specialist

Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia), left, 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

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 March 1, 2023. From left are Sultan Alneyadi, United Arab Emirates astronaut and mission specialist; Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut (Russia) and mission specialist; NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg, pilot; and NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander. 

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator are seen as NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia), wearing SpaceX spacesuits, wave as they prepare to depart

Vehicles carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 depart for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts walked out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 1, 2023. 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.

They boarded two Tesla vehicles for the trip to Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, where they launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2023, to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost.

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.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).  

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/Kim Shiflett

Image Date: March 1, 2023

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