SpaceX Falcon 9 To Launch Sixth Crew To International Space Station After An Initial Delay
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, February 27, carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and the second UAE astronaut to go to space.
The Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, February 28.
The crew is made up of NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev, and the UAE's Sultan al-Neyadi, who will spend six months on the ISS.
Neyadi will become the second Emirati astronaut and the fourth from an Arab country to travel to space.
During their time orbiting the earth, the crew will carry out multiple experiments like studying how materials burn in microgravity and researching heart, brain and cartilage functions.
This will be the sixth crew to be sent to the ISS in a SpaceX rocket.
Crew-6 will have a handover of several calendar days with the four members of the SpaceX Dragon Crew-5, who have been stationed on the ISS since October.
Two Russian cosmonauts, Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev, and NASA's astronaut, Frank Rubio, are currently in the ISS, but their return was delayed due to the damaged cooling system of their Soyuz MS-22 capsule.
Despite tensions on earth, politics rarely come up while in space, and there has always been a cordial relationship with cosmonauts once they reach space, as mentioned by Bowen, a veteran with three space missions.
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