NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Crew Arrival for Prelaunch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Crew Arrival for Prelaunch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli (crew commander), second from right, answers a question from a member of the media along side fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov (Russia), European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen (Denmark), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa arrived at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. 

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh 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. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch no earlier than 3:49 a.m. EDT on August 25, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. 

This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

Mogensen will be the spacecraft pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the first non-US astronaut assigned in this capacity. This will be the first long-duration mission for Mogensen. He previously served as a flight engineer on a ten-day mission to the International Space Station in 2015. Crew-7 will be his second trip to space.

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/Joel Kowsky

Image Capture Date: August 20, 2023

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