NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Overview | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Overview | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is bringing NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos (Russia) to the International Space Station.

The SpaceX Crew-8 mission lifted off aboard the Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft at 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Commercial Crew quartet is taking a 28-hour automated ride aboard Endeavour and will dock to the International Space Station Harmony module’s forward port at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.

Learn more about the crew and mission: 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-8/

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.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Release Date: March 4, 2024

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