NASA’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch on 2023-03-02 at 05:34 UTC. The mission will take four crew, two from NASA, one from Russia’s Roscosmos, and one from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) space agency, to the station for a six month stay. They will fly to the ISS in Crew Dragon vehicle Endeavour, which previously flew to and from the ISS on the Demo-2, Crew-2, and Axiom Space Ax-1 missions. The first stage booster, B1078, is new and will be making its first flight. Weather is forecast as 95% favourable for launch.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev was scheduled to fly to the ISS on Soyuz MS-23, which was re-purposed as a replacement for MS-22 which sprung a coolant leak while docked to the ISS. He was moved up to the Crew-6 flight as part of the seat swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos. UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi is flying under an agreement between Axiom Space and Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, using a seat Axiom traded to NASA on its Axiom-1 mission to fly a NASA astronaut to the station.
Here is a pre-flight preview from Everyday Astronaut.
This is the NASA SpaceX Crew-6 Launch Readiness Review media teleconference, held on the evening of 2023-02-25 Florida time.
