At 13:07 Beijing time on February 26, 2023, the Falcon Nine carrier rocket carrying the Crew-6 Dragon manned spacecraft will go to the International Space Station for crew rotation from the LC-39A (Launch Complex 39A) launch center at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
From left to right: Andrei Fedyaev, Warren " Woody Hoborg, Stephen Bowen, Sultan Arneyadi
On this trip, the Crew-6 Dragon manned spacecraft carried 4 astronauts from 3 countries, including NASA astronaut mission commander Stephen Bowen and pilot Warren Bowen. Warren "Woody" Hoburg, as well as UAE astronaut mission specialist Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos astronaut mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev. As a member of the 69th Expedition Team of the International Space Station, the Crew-6 crew will replace the 68th Crew Crew-5 in space residency missions, support space science and technical experiments, and manage and maintain the space station.
Crew-6 crew
This launch is the first manned launch of the world's space in 2023, which will open the curtain on the world's space manned launch dominated by the three space powers of China, Russia and the United States. Next, Russia's Soyuz MS-23 manned spacecraft will be launched by a Soyuz 2.1a rocket to the International Space Station in early March to replace the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft, whose cooling system was damaged by a micrometeor impact. In the spring of this year (no later than March), the Dragon spacecraft on the AX-2 mission will be launched by a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station for Axiom Space's second ISS space travel mission.
Author: Dabai Gao Guo