SpaceX Crew-6 is planned to be the sixth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the tenth overall crewed orbital flight.
The lift-off is set for February 26, 2023, at 2:07 a.m. ET, 07:07 CET/GMT, and 08:07 CET from Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Crew-6 mission will transport four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). Two NASA astronauts, a United Arab Emirates, and a Russian cosmonaut, have been assigned to the mission. The two NASA astronauts are Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg. The cosmonaut, Andrey Fedyaev, was reassigned from Soyuz MS-23. Sultan Al Neyadi will head the Emirates' mission on the flight.
On 24 March 2022, the European Space Agency announced that Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen would serve as a backup pilot. On 29 April 2022, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and Axiom Space announced that Crew-6 would also include an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
MBRSC participation in this mission is a by-product of a 2021 agreement between NASA and Axiom to fly a NASA astronaut, Mark T. Vande Hei, onboard Soyuz MS-18 (launch) and Soyuz MS-19 (return) to ensure a continuing American presence onboard the ISS. In return, Axiom received the rights to a NASA-owned seat onboard SpaceX Crew-6. Axiom provided the flight opportunity to MBRSC professional crew members through an agreement with the United Arab Emirates Space Agency. Later the astronaut was confirmed to be Sultan Al Neyadi.
Andrey Fedyaev was selected in July 2022 for this mission as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station and can maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon-2 "Endeavour" will be used, which has performed 3 flights with 280 days and 19 hours in space.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023 AT 5:25 AM UTC+02
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