SpaceX Crew-4 Suit Up for Dragon | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX Crew-4 Suit Up for Dragon | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are scheduled to launch at 5:26 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 23, 2022, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom crew ship and dock to the same port vacated by the Ax-1 mission on Sunday at 6 a.m. The quartet commanded by NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, with Pilot Robert Hines and Mission Specialists Jessica Watkins of NASA and the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy, will live and work aboard the orbiting lab for just over four-and-a-half months. The Crew-4 astronauts will become Expedition 67 flight engineers after they open the hatches and enter the space station.

Crew-4 astronauts, from left, Jessica Watson, mission specialist; Bob Hines, pilot; Kjell Lindgren, commander and Samantha Cristoforetti, mission specialist, pose outside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, during a dry dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2022. 

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Crew-4 astronauts, from left, Jessica Watson, mission specialist; Bob Hines, pilot; Kjell Lindgren, commander and Samantha Cristoforetti, mission specialist, are positioned inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, during a dry dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 20, 2022.

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Crew-4 mission astronauts participate in NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 dry dress rehearsal in the suit room inside Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on April 20, 2022. A team of SpaceX suit technicians assisted them as they put on their custom-fitted spacesuits and checked the suits for leaks. From left are: Jessica Watkins, mission specialist; Bob Hines, pilot; Kjell Lindgren, commander; and Samantha Cristoforetti, mission specialist.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts—from front, left to right—Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watson, and Samantha Cristoforetti walk out through the double doors below the Neil A. Armstrong Building’s Astronaut Crew Quarters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a dry dress rehearsal on April 20, 2022.

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