The Crew-6 mission is preparing to take off into space. With the help of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the company’s Dragon Endeavor spacecraft will blast off early Monday morning at 1:45 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The spacecraft will carry four astronauts, including NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They are heading to the International Space Station for a stay of up to six months, where carry out various investigations projects to help “prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth.”
On the ISS, they will join the seven-member Expedition 69 crew and history-making astronauts from Crew-5, who will depart shortly after Crew-6’s arrival. This marks the seventh time SpaceX has brought astronauts aboard its Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and the company’s ninth crewed flight overall.
