NASA's SpaceX Crew-7: Preparing for Launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7: Preparing for Launch | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: Spacecraft Commander

Roscosmos Konstantin Borisov (Russia): Mission Specialist

European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark: Spacecraft Pilot

JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (Japan): Mission Specialist

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Mission Patch

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 are preparing to start their mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted to launch Crew-7 no earlier than 3:49 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 —the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. 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.

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: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Image Date: June 21, 2023

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