TITUSVILLE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 04th October, 2022) NASA and SpaceX presently see nothing that would doubtlessly delay the launch of the Crew-5 mission flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday, SpaceX Human Spaceflight Programs senior director Benji Reed stated throughout a convention name.
“I don’t see any showstoppers here and I certainly don’t see anything adding elevated risk to the mission,” Reed stated on Monday.
US Space Force forty fifth Weather Squadron launch climate officer Brian Cizek added that good climate is predicted on the launch web site Wednesday by Friday.
The Crew-5 flight scheduled for Wednesday will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, who will function mission commander and pilot, respectively, together with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who will function mission specialists.
In July, Roscosmos and NASA signed an settlement on built-in flights of cosmonauts and astronauts to the ISS. As a part of the settlement, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft was launched from Baikonur to the ISS on September 21 carrying one other crew together with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin in addition to NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio. The solely feminine cosmonaut at Roscosmos, Kikina, will fly to the ISS on the US-made Crew Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday.
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