SPACEX CREW-6 OF NASA SAFELY EN-ROUTE TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Published By Shweta Birendra Shukla | 4 Mar, 2023
Two U.S. astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut were safely on their way to the International Space Station
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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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Control over the spacecraft will be handed off from SpaceX mission control near Los Angeles to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
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The four-man team is expected to spend six months aboard the ISS conducting more than 200 experiments
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Some of the research will help pave the way for future long-duration human expeditions to the Moon
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The mission, designated Crew 6, is the sixth long-duration ISS team SpaceX has flown for NASA
The Crew 6 mission also was notable for its inclusion of UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi
Fedyaev is the second cosmonaut to fly aboard an American spacecraft under a renewed ride-sharing deal signed in July by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos
The launch and rendezvous fell exactly on the four-year anniversary of SpaceX's first uncrewed "Demo-1"