Key Takeaways
- The crew mission to the ISS is set for August 17, marking the seventh Commercial Crew flight.
- NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli leads the international crew alongside ESA, JAXA, and Roscosmos representatives.
- The launch will use a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule from Kennedy Space Center.
Los Angeles: NASA and SpaceX are targeting August 17 to launch the seventh crew mission.
The mission will head to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced on Wednesday.
The mission, codenamed “Crew-7“, is the seventh rotational mission to the ISS for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is expected to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Dragon capsule will carry NASA astronaut and Mission Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut and Pilot Andreas Mogensen, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov as mission specialists.
