Crew-6's four astronauts are a truly international team: It's an absolute miracle of engineering and I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine," he said. ET Friday.Īfter reaching orbit, Hoburg had plenty of praise for the hardware: "As a rookie flyer, that was one heck of a ride. Dragon is slated to dock with the ISS at 1:17 a.m. The Dragon capsule, meanwhile, previously flew three missions: Demo-2 in 2020, Crew-2 in 2021, and Axiom's private Ax-1 mission last year. The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage was brand new and successfully landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship stationed several hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends," mission commander Bowen, quoting Shakespeare's "Henry V," said just before liftoff. Onboard were NASA's Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. ET, a Falcon 9 rocket vaulted off pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center with NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, the seventh flight under contract between the agency and California-based company. – An international crew of three astronauts and a cosmonaut launched from Kennedy Space Center early Thursday, kicking off a roughly six-month science mission to the International Space Station.Īt 12:34 a.m. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Watch Video: SpaceX launches NASA's Crew-6 mission from Kennedy Space CenterīREVARD, Fla. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC.
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