NASA and SpaceX's next manned mission will launch at the end of February – Science – Life

NASA and SpaceX's eighth crewed mission will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of February, the US space agency said on Thursday.

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The four Crew-8 crew members will travel between February 22 and March 1, and they will do so on board The Dragon capsule will be launched by a Falcon 9 rocket, both from SpaceX, from Kennedy Space Centerin Florida, as announced today in a conference call by the head of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, Steve Stitch.

Space agency managers will determine the exact launch date for Crew-8 and determine it before the launch of the mission that will transport it to the surface The Intuitive Machines lunar module, also planned for the second half of February.

Crew-8 will be led by astronaut Matthew Dominique, who will make his first spaceflight. This will also be the case with his colleague at NASA, Janet Epps, one of the specialists.

The pilot will be astronaut Michael Barratt, who will make this mission his third trip to the space station and has accumulated 212 days in space throughout his career. His first trip to the International Space Station was in 2009, and two years later he returned to the orbital laboratory aboard the shuttle Discovery..

As Joel Montalbano, NASA's International Space Station Program Manager, pointed out today during their trip to the International Space Station, members of this mission will participate in 200 scientific experiments and research in orbit.

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The Crew-8 crew will travel inside the Dragon Endeavour, which will reportedly complete its fifth flight and is in final tests for this mission. Still on the space station are the crew members of the special Axiom 3 mission, which arrived at the ISS on January 20, where they will remain there for 14 days to conduct scientific and technological tests.

Evie