Additionally, the mission carries Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) outreach investigations and Whitson’s crew will support about 130 cumulative hours of National Lab Science during their week aboard the sprawling orbital outpost. Destiny lab to support Dragon Freedom’s inbound approach and docking.Īhead for Ax-2 are more than 20 multidisciplinary experiments spanning the life sciences, human research, physical sciences and technology demonstrations. Last week, Bowen gathered and staged emergency hardware to accommodate the new arrivals and Al-Neyadi reviewed procedures and set up computers in the multi-windowed cupola and the U.S. astronauts Frank Rubio, Steve Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-has busily been preparing for Ax-2’s arrival. On-orbit, the station’s incumbent Expedition 69 crew-Commander Sergei Prokopyev and fellow Russian cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Andrei Fedyayev, U.S. This particular ship was gearing up for her second orbital voyage after supporting the 170-day Crew-4 increment to the ISS last year.ĭragon Freedom, pictured during her 170-day mission in support of Crew-4 last year. Photo credit/Jeff SeibertĪt the historic pad-whose 158 prior launches included the first humans to orbit the Moon, the first crewed lunar landing, the Skylab space station and the first shuttle flight-the four astronauts ascended the elevator and were assisted into their seats aboard Dragon Freedom. Axion-2 launches from Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center. Early Saturday, Whitson, Shoffer, Al-Qarni and Barnawi awakened, breakfasted and donned their customized SpaceX launch and entry suits, before taking the well-driven route from the Neil Armstrong Operations & Checkout Building to Pad 39A aboard Tesla Model X Crew Transport Vehicles. Photo Credit: SpaceXī1080, the third brand-new “single-stick” Falcon 9 to have entered SpaceX’s burgeoning fleet so far in 2023, rolled out to the pad on Thursday and completed a Static Fire Test of her nine Merlin 1D+ engines on Friday. In a remarkable day for women in space, the world’s most experienced female space traveler and Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut take flight at 5:37 p.m.
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