{"id":10341,"date":"2023-08-21T01:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/international-crew-arrive-in-florida-ahead-of-space-station-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T01:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T17:49:02","slug":"international-crew-arrive-in-florida-ahead-of-space-station-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/international-crew-arrive-in-florida-ahead-of-space-station-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"International crew arrive in Florida ahead of space station mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63262\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Arrival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Arrival.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Arrival-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew members for the next space station mission pose for photographers after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 2023. From left to right: Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov, Pilot Andreas Mogensen, Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, and Mission Specialist Satoshi Furukawa. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next four crew members bound for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station flew to the Kennedy Space Center Sunday to prepare for launch early Friday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Jasmin Moghbeli, the Crew-7 commander, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov landed at the old space shuttle runway around noon EDT after a flight from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can probably tell from the huge smiles on our faces that we\u2019re extremely excited to finally be here at Kennedy Space Center and for the journey we\u2019re about to embark on,\u201d said Moghbeli, a Marine Corps helicopter test pilot and mother of two-and-a-half-year-old twin girls.<\/p>\n<p>Moghbeli and her crewmates plan to strap into their Crew Dragon capsule \u201cEndurance\u201d at historic pad 39A early Tuesday for a dress-rehearsal countdown. Once complete and the crew is out of the spacecraft, SpaceX plans to test fire the first stage\u2019s nine Merlin engines to verify the booster\u2019s readiness for its first flight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAaNOZDc2B8\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Assuming no problems crop up and the weather cooperates, the crew will strap in for real Friday morning around 1:15 a.m. for a launch at 3:49 a.m. Moghbeli and Mogensen will monitor a series of automated rendezvous maneuvers leading to a docking at the space station just after 2 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our seventh operational mission to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew Program,\u201d said Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro. \u201cAnd even though we have a robust manifest here, we are always super excited when we\u2019re going to stick a human on the rocket. (It) always ups the level of excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borisov and Moghbeli, a Marine lieutenant colonel with more than 150 combat missions to her credit, are making their first spaceflight. Mogensen visited the space station for nine days in 2015 as part of a short-duration Russian Soyuz swap-out flight while Furukawa logged 167 days aboard the outpost in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Borisov is the third Russian to fly aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon as part of an agreement between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, to launch one NASA astronaut aboard each Soyuz flight to the station and one cosmonaut aboard each ISS-bound Crew Dragon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63266\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Borisov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Borisov.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-7-Borisov-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov answers a question from the news media after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 20, 2023. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The agreement ensures at least one crew member from each country is always aboard the station even if an emergency of some sort forced a Soyuz or Crew Dragon to depart early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf ever you\u2019ve seen the evidence of this being an international program, you\u2019re seeing it today with this crew,\u201d said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who welcomed the Crew-7 fliers to Florida. \u201cOf all crews, this is the most international that we\u2019ve had, and I think it shows the breadth of the cooperation around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said Borisov: \u201cI\u2019m honored to be part of the \u2026 most international crew ever. Experienced astronauts and cosmonauts, they say that when you go to the ISS and you look at the planet, you see that there are no borders. And really, I want to continue and to convey that feeling and that emotion and also to support the cooperation which we have been having so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63263\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-Suits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-Suits.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820-Crew-Suits-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew in their SpaceX suits during a pre-flight training visit to their Crew Dragon capsule. From left to right: Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov, Pilot Andreas Mogensen, Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, and Mission Specialist Satoshi Furukawa. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew members for the next space station mission pose for photographers after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 2023. From left to right: Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov, Pilot Andreas Mogensen, Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, and Mission Specialist Satoshi Furukawa. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now. 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