The Crew-4 astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday night.
“Our heartfelt thank you to every one of you that made this possible,” Lindgren, the commander of the mission, said before the launch. “Now let Falcon roar and Freedom ring.”The Crew-4 astronauts will spend the next six months on the ISS, carrying out more than 200 science experiments and at least two spacewalks.
“This is certainly an important milestone I think, both for our [space] agency and for the country,” Watkins said at a press conference last month. “It really is just a tribute to the legacy of the Black women astronauts that have come before me as well as to the exciting future ahead.”, the first all-private space mission to the ISS, which returned to Earth earlier this week.
“The past few days at Kennedy Space Center have been inspiring and busy with the return of the Axiom crew and now the successful launch of Crew-4 astronauts to the International Space Station,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said on Wednesday. “These missions wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated NASA and SpaceX teams here on Earth. Godspeed, Crew-4!”
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