NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7: Preflight Dress Rehearsal | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7: Preflight Dress Rehearsal | Kennedy Space Center

From left are Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov (Russia), European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and Crew-7 commander

European Space Agency astronaut and Crew-7 pilot Andreas Mogensen of Denmark

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Crew-7 mission specialist Satoshi Furukawa

Roscosmos cosmonaut and Crew-7 mission specialist Konstantin Borisov (Russia)

An international crew is preparing to launch to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli (Crew-7 commander), European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen (Crew-7 pilot) of Denmark, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut (Crew-7 mission specialist) Satoshi Furukawa, and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov (Crew-7 mission specialist) 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 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 26, 2023, 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. 23, 2023

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