Canadian Astronaut Prepares for NASA Mission to International Space Station
The four-person crew will spend six months on the station and conduct Canadian-led health studies and maintenance work, NASA said.
- On Monday, NASA is holding a briefing to discuss the upcoming Crew-13 mission, which will send a four-person crew to the International Space Station.
- The crew will spend six months at the ISS conducting maintenance work and scientific research during their assignment.
- Commander Jessica Watkins, pilot Luke Delaney, and mission specialists Joshua Kutryk and Sergey Teteryatnikov comprise the crew; Kutryk will lead a Canadian-led study on microgravity's health effects.
- The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 12 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40.
- Separately, a discarded Falcon 9 upper stage will crash into the moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at roughly 5,400 mph nearly 240,000 miles from Earth.
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