NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Falcon 9 Rocket & Dragon Preflight | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Falcon 9 Rocket & Dragon Preflight | Kennedy Space Center

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen after sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-7 mission, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A during a brief static fire test ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

A heron is seen in the Turning Basin after sunrise before the static fire test of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft onboard at Launch Complex 39A ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

An international crew is preparing to launch to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli (commander), European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen (pilot) of Denmark, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos (Russia) will perform research technology demonstrations, science experiments, and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity laboratory.

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 Friday, 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.

Learn more about the Crew-7 mission here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-7/

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Image Capture Date: Aug. 22, 2023

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