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NASA has updated its launch date for the SpaceX Crew-6 mission
to the International Space Station, from Sunday, Feb. 26, to
Monday, Feb. 27, Trend reports citing Xinhua.
The liftoff is slated for Monday at 1:45 a.m. Eastern Time from
Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S.
state of Florida, according to NASA.
Managers from NASA and SpaceX, along with international
partners, met on Tuesday as part of the mission’s Flight Readiness
Review (FRR) in preparation for the sixth crew rotation mission
with SpaceX to the microgravity laboratory.
The FRR focused on the preparedness of SpaceX’s crew
transportation system, the space station, and its international
partners to support the flight, as well as the certification of
flight readiness, according to NASA.
The Crew-6 launch will carry NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and
Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as United Arab Emirates astronaut
Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the space
station for a science expedition mission.
Crew-6 will spend up to six months at the space station before
returning to Earth, according to NASA.
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