SpaceX: Crew-3 mission, led by astronaut Raja Chari, will launch to the International Space Station on October 31 - TheWestNews

SpaceX: Crew-3 mission, led by astronaut Raja Chari, will launch to the International Space Station on October 31

This is the fourth voyage with astronauts and the third crew rotation mission on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Nasa and SpaceX are nearing the end of their mission to send the next rotational crew to the space station. The Crew-3 will take off on October 31st.

This is the third crew rotation mission with astronauts on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and the fourth voyage with astronauts as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, including the Demo-2 test flight.

The four astronauts will be launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, led by Elon Musk. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the station the following day.

The four-person team will spend six months onboard the microgravity laboratory doing research that will push the boundaries of human space exploration. For a brief period, the team will collaborate with Crew-2 astronauts and members of Expedition 66, who are now onboard the ISS, before taking over the work.

The Crew-3 flight will transport Nasa astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander; Tom Marshburn, pilot; and Kayla Barron, mission specialist, to the space station for a six-month science mission, as well as European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who will serve as a mission specialist.

On October 16, the four members were quarantined for the mission. The...

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