With the rocket on the launch pad, the four-person crew for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the Worldwide House Station participated in a dry gown rehearsal Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station’s House Launch Advanced 40 in Florida.
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian House Company) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, spent the morning within the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Constructing at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida, donning spacesuits and finishing air leak checks. As soon as suited, they boarded automobiles and traveled to House Launch Advanced 40, the place they entered the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that may take them to the house station.
Crew-13 is scheduled to launch to the station no sooner than 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 1, for a long-duration science mission.
After Crew-13 arrives aboard the orbiting laboratory, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members will assist familiarize the brand new crew with ongoing science and station upkeep actions for a clean transition of operations. Following this transient handover, and pending climate situations, Crew-12, together with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, will board its SpaceX spacecraft and head for a splashdown off the coast of California.
NASA’s Business Crew Workplace has delivered on its purpose of secure, dependable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the Worldwide House Station from america by a partnership with American non-public trade. This partnership is opening entry to low Earth orbit and the Worldwide House Station to extra individuals, extra science, and extra business alternatives.
For greater than 25 years, individuals have constantly lived and labored aboard the Worldwide House Station, advancing scientific information and demonstrating new applied sciences that allow us to arrange for human exploration of the Moon as we put together for Mars.
