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Launch Date
3/2/2023
Launch Site
KSC LC39A
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
The Crew-5 crew will serve on the International Space Station for up to six months before being relieved by the Crew-6 mission next spring.
Crew-6 is scheduled to spend six months at the International Space Station.
The four Crew-6 astronauts will spend about six months aboard the International Space Station.
The Crew-6 members are scheduled to depart the International Space Station on the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour no earlier than 2023-09-01, depending on weather at splashdown sites off the Florida coast.
The Crew-6 crew spent 184 days aboard the International Space Station and completed 2,976 orbits around Earth.
Axiom Space and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre signed an agreement on 2022-04-29 for an Emirati astronaut to fly to the ISS on the Crew-6 mission.
The Crew-6 seat used for the United Arab Emirates astronaut flight is a seat Axiom Space acquired from NASA in exchange for a Soyuz seat the company purchased directly from Roscosmos.
Axiom Space has an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to send an astronaut on the Crew-6 long-duration International Space Station mission launching in 2023.
NASA is moving ahead with plans to launch the Crew-6 Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station on 2023-02-26 at 2:07 a.m. Eastern.
NASA is scheduled to launch the Crew-6 mission to the ISS on 2023-02-26 using a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
NASA and SpaceX required additional time to complete work on the Crew-6 vehicle, including additional thermal analysis of panels on the exterior of Dragon and testing of composite overwrapped pressure vessels in the Falcon 9.
NASA selected 12:34 a.m. Eastern on 2023-03-02 as the next launch attempt for Crew-6 pending resolution of the TEA-TEB issue.
NASA approved plans for a second Crew-6 launch attempt on 2023-03-01 after reviewing the TEA-TEB problem.
On 2023-05-06, the Crew-6 completed a port relocation maneuver to the station’s Earth-facing port ahead of the arrival of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
The Falcon 9 booster used on the BlueBird 1-5 mission previously launched Crew-6, O3b mPOWER, USSF-124, and nine Starlink missions.