After departing by way of Gulfstream jet plane from Ellington Discipline close to NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin simply landed on the Launch and Touchdown Facility on the company’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida. The crew will start remaining preparations for liftoff to the International Space Station as a part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission.
Crew-8 astronauts shall be greeted shortly by NASA leaders for a short welcome ceremony and media occasion, scheduled for about 2 p.m. EST with the next contributors:
- Jennifer Kunz, affiliate director, NASA Kennedy
- Dana Hutcherson, deputy program supervisor, Business Crew Program
- NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick
- NASA astronaut Michael Barratt
- NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
- Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin
The occasion is scheduled to be streamed stay on Kennedy’s YouTube, X, and Facebook accounts.
Crew-8 astronauts are scheduled to launch to the house station at 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket as a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The crew will spend a number of months residing and dealing aboard the orbiting laboratory earlier than returning to Earth within the fall of 2024.
That is the eighth crew rotation flight and the ninth human spaceflight mission on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to the Worldwide House Station for CCP. Particulars concerning the mission and NASA’s Business Crew Program will be discovered by following the Crew-8 weblog, the industrial crew weblog, X, and Facebook.
