NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Falcon 9 Rocket Launch | Kennedy Space Center
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) onboard, Thursday, March 2, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
UAE astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center will make history by becoming the first astronaut from the Arab world to spend six months on the International Space Station.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost.
NASA TV will resume coverage at 11:30pm EST as the Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station:
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
Video Credit: NASA
Acknowledgement: SciNews
Duration: 6 minutes
Capture Dates: March 1-2, 2023
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